*This entry is dated for April 22 to commemorate Earth Day 2009 but the photos and trip recounted below were taken on Saturday, April 25.  There’s a very special exhibit (www.coolglobes.com) that just opened at Exposition Park in LA in honor of Earth Day.  It runs through July 23 and will continue on to Houston, Texas.  I’d seen …
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My City of Angels
 A sweet email from a Scottish reader reminds me what a great photographic opportunity I have right here in Los Angeles. So while I anticipate my next trip to NY to visit my newest niece, I’ll just post pictures of my hometown as I find it here and there for a while. The photos in today’s entry were taken appropriately enough …
And Groovy Rooftops
 I was driving, well, sitting in traffic this Easter weekend to get to an appointment in Santa Monica. It was one of those perfect LA spring days…not too chilly to roll the windows all the way up and not too warm to roll them completely down. So with the windows cracked half-way, I sat on the parking lot known as the I-10 …
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Support Your Local Artists
 A reader asked about a painting partially displayed in one of my ODJ pictures, and besides chatting about the latest fashion trends I could gab endlessly about art…but that would bore everyone to tears, so today I thought I’d just post a few photos of the paintings around my house. I do apologize for the poor quality of these pictures; …
Unlucky Charm
 Have you ever been on a flight where even your amateur eyes tell you the rickety plane’s propellers shouldn’t look bent? But you get on anyway, trembling, because if you didn’t, you might not find a way out of the jungle for another 2 weeks?   What about hopping on a crowded dinghy manned by 8 very drunk people on open seas with no life …