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Month: August 2013
Donut Run
A family affair.
Heat Wave
10 PM on a weeknight and no one wants to go back in the house, even in posh Encino.
Fro-yo date, with cell phones
Pinkberry, Studio City. Warm, warm nights all week. People out and about, taking full advantage.
Discussion
Armenian women gather on the stoop after the sun drops behind the trees. They had a lot to talk about.
Flaming June at the El Gordo truck
Off-Ramp
Broke, hungry, disabled….except when he darts between cars to collect dollar bills. Too judgmental?
Sidewalk sale
Christo lives in Van Nuys on a Saturday afternoon. Parkway tree as art installation.
End of tomato season
Stink bugs (or are they Blister beetles?) lay waste to the last of the garden tomatoes, which were not abundant this year, though tastier than normal. The Valley just doesn’t have enough day/night temperature change or moisture/sun ratio or whatever it is that creates that flavor pop you get nearer the ocean or at higher elevations. My parents live at the 3,000 ft elevation in the Coast Range of Northern California and grow tomatoes as flavorful as sun-drieds when picked fresh off the vine and seem to last for weeks to boot. Every one a little crack pipe for the taste buds.
Right of way
Sidewalk gives way to root octopi on Rubio St, outside the Veggie Grill.