Mockingbird song, with crickets, around 1:00AM

I am so fond of this little bird. He's always up way too late, like me.

Boys

Spotted on El Molino in Pasadena.

Views from the South Pasadena Fun Fair

Big rides...

About a bazillion used books available dirt cheap...

Lots of bands -- and not a single cover of Sweet Home Alabama or Radar Love...

View from the top of the Ferris wheel. (My little daughter loved this part.)

Too many wonderful faces to count...

Dancers in fancy skirts and shiny shoes...

Lots of various grade school buddies...

...and great vantage points for someone with a camera.

Drive-by Art

Freeway shots. (Don't worry, I wasn't driving!)

Portraits at the Zoo

Horses on El Centro

Just another day in South Pasadena...

Watching the Fire

I didn't get any good shots of the fire at the South Pasadena Public Works Department last night. But I really like this one I took while GOSP reader and fellow blogger Mister Earl and I stood on the train tracks watching the firefighters put out the blaze.

Orbital

4:00PM at the Japanese Tea Garden in Descanso Gardens

Easter Egg

Wilt

petals ripen then
fall like tripped ballerinas.

ephemeral bloom.

Night Approaches

A tall palm does its best to catch the last rays of a sun as dusk settles. The moon waits.

March

a new spring tiptoes
into days stretched by sunlight.

winter's shadow falls.

Remnants

Americana at Brand

After a rain.

San Rafael Bridge off Arroyo Drive

Not as flashy -- or as famous -- as the Colorado Street Bridge, but this one still beckons. Cross it from Arroyo Drive, just outside of South Pas.