Fighting the Commuter Blues

I drive 35 minutes each way to work. What do you do during your commute?

Light Lasso

Thursday, 5 Nov 2009, PCH, Wilmington

Manual setting, and lots of camera waiving

Moonroof Sunset
Thursday, 5 Nov 2009, Redondo Ave., Long Beach
Point & shoot, 'P' mode, -2/3 f-stop

Malaga School (SkyWatch Friday)

The $8.5 million renovation of Malaga School (previously posted here) is almost complete for the main building. It's a building well worth preserving.

1926, Allison and Allison; Olmsted and Olmsted, landscape architects

North of Via Almar at Via Arroyo
"Mediterranean, with a tower that seems to be derived from late-15th or early-16th-century Spanish examples." from An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles by David Gebhard & Robert Winter (Entry #12 out of 25 for Palos Verdes, North).

Auction - Crystalaire Airport, Llano, CA

The estate of Fred Robinson, sailplane pilot, instructor and owner of the Great Western Soaring school at Crystalaire Airport (Llano, CA) was auctioned off, including 2 tow planes, a gas truck, and many sailplane parts and related items.

'P' is for Private Parties (abc Wednesday)

... at the Palos Verdes peninsula in public places...(perhaps I got a bit too carried away with my p's).
Halloween Saturday, 2009 by Roessler Point. A nice day for a wedding!
A bit further down the peninsula at Bluff Cove, 'Hens' & 'Bakes', friends since they were 12-years-old, enjoyed the sunset while waiting for their other buddies to return from a lobster dive.

An Afternoon Ride

On the bridal trails along Palos Verdes Dr. North just before Rawhide Ln.

Doorways and The Wooden Floor

A hallway at a clothing store in the PV mall.
The photo tied in nicely to introduce The Wooden Floor, the benficiary of the 18th Annual Children's Book Illustrators Show & Signing sponsored by the Chemers Gallery in Tustin, CA. I came across this gallery & the video by searching for pottery by a PVHS grad & former PV Art Center ceramics teacher, Karen Thayer.

November Theme Day: Doorways ... on All Saint's Day

The Neighborhood Church (established 1939) at the old Haggerty Mansion, 415 Paseo Del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates. (Click on the name to read more about its history.) A very nice church member chatted with us and said that a lot of the Frost/Nixon movie was filmed here but that the camera angles make it hard to recoginze the church.
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants for November City Daily Photo Theme Day.

From the Sleepy Hollow - So Cal Style

"Jack" at Pumpkin Watch Friday

Jack appears every year at this time on a hill in the Conoco Phillips Petroleum Refinery (the old Union 76) complex just east and off the hill from PV in Wilmington. The folks at the refinery hand out goody bags every Halloween with ... Cracker Jack, of course. View coming down the hill from PV Drive North.

Transformer at Orange Co. Car Show by Guest Blogger Tricia Carr

A really great capture by Tricia! Check out her pups and kitty at HotDogHaiku

Will you be transforming for Halloween?

'N' is for Napping (abc Wednesday)

See more 'N's at Mrs. Nesbitt's abc Wednesday.

'O' is for 'Oops!' I just realized I'm a week behind on the abc Wednesday. Oh, well...

Last Evening of Indian Summer

I want to thank my friend L. for getting me out of the house for coffee at the Golden Cove Center yesterday evening...so I got to see this. It was warm, it was clear (the rarely seen Channel Islands and either Santa Barbara or the more distant San Nicolas islands were visable), and the photos come close but do not do justice to the real scene.

550 Silver Spur Road (Monochrome Monday)

Home of SQA Services (a supplier quality management company).

See lots more B&W photos at Aileni's MonochromeWeekly.

Evening - Port of LA & Vincent Thomas Bridge

Coming into port on Catalina Express.

(Added note for Brenda: Canon PowerShot SX100 IS, 'P'-mode, f/3.2, 1/13 sec, ISO-800, -0.3 step exposure bias).

Walkies!

These little guys are getting a walk at (what I just found out) is named the Founders Park.
("The park was formally accepted by the City on January 17, 2006 and named in honor of the City’s founders who led the effort to incorporate the City of Rancho Palos Verdes more than 30 years ago. This 5.5-acre parcel is located adjacent to the Trump National Clubhouse and offers patrons an attractive sight with breath-taking ocean views, picnic tables, a gazebo, nearby restrooms, coastal access and adjacent walking and biking trails. Dogs must be on a leash." - Ref. Palos Verdes.com-RPV-parks.)