Photos from the road

I haven't done a series of commute photos in a while.  Here are a few images from my drive home last week.  When you think about taking photos, it makes you really see things around you.  Don't you agree?

Half-past May

Time flies - it's already half-way through May.   The weather is very springlike - 70s mostly, lots of sunshine.

The photos  this week include a couple from a wedding I went to last Thursday (Lag B'Omer).  Very sweet young couple.  There's also a few from my little backyard.

I hope you enjoy them.

Bouquet & psalms

Mothers and the groom

Bougainvillea "Raspberry Ice"

Garden face

Mr Sunshine

Conversation area

More garden photos

Yesterday was the Garden Conservancy's Los Angeles Open Day.  I volunteered in one of the gardens in the afternoon, so I went on the tour in the morning.  The homes on this tour were more modest than last week's Pasadena tour, except for "El Sueno", a beautiful Spanish colonial revival mansion that looks like it was built in the 1920s, but was actually constructed within the last ten years.  The other homes were charming too; much more within the average person's "doability" range.  These tours are very inspiring; it makes me appreciate that I have a lovely garden at home to spend time in.  Hope you have one, too!

The Buck Garden

Bench among the roses

Old fashioned tea rose

Columbine again

This house was amazing, but it wasn't really on the tour :) 

At El Sueno

Red floribunda roses in front of a tiled fountain

Shuttered windows

Potted plants on a patio with bougainvillea

Fancy houses on a far hill

Romantic entry way

Manzanita