Pasadena artist (and my dear friend) Alyssa Sherwood is selling these lovely little Horace pillows. They are perfect for sensitive, creative children (and adults). Every part of Horace, from the thread he is sewn with to his packing materials, is friendly to the environment, and when you hold him up to your nose and smell him, you smell nothing — no traces of funny chemical or ink smells. He’s clean and lovely and well constructed and perfect for imaginative little people.
Tags: environmentally friendly, gift ideas, gifts for children, Green, Pasadena artists, pillows, stuffed animals, toys
Posted in Art | 2 Comments »
Mural on the wall in the South Pasadena post office
Detail
The South Pasadena post office
Tags: murals, post offices, South Pasadena
Posted in Art | 5 Comments »
(This is actually last year’s turkey. This year’s just went into the oven.)
Tags: Thanksgiving
Posted in Holidays | 14 Comments »
Goodbye, Wild Oats.
It’s so empty.
We’ll miss you.
Kelly at West Coast Grrlie Blather has posted a great collection of links about the new Whole Foods flagship store.
Tags: Goodbyes, Grocery stores
Posted in Shops | 17 Comments »
Bikers participating in Love Ride 24
We saw a group of people standing on a 210 freeway overpass looking down at the freeway at 9:30 this morning, so we pulled over and got out, too. When we couldn’t see anything unusual happening on the freeway, we asked one of them what was going on. We learned that a bunch of motorcyclists were on their way from Glendale to Pomona as part of California Bike Week, and that Jay Leno was going to be among them. We didn’t stay long enough to see the big mass of motorcyclists that were on their way, but we did see a few groups of bikers who were ahead of the pack.
We also saw one Santa biker.
Tags: Freeways
Posted in Miscellaneous | 6 Comments »
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Metropolitan Coffee & Tea
(across the street from Vroman’s)
Saturday, November 10
10:00 a.m. - noon
(Advice is free. We offer no guarantees, other than that we’ll probably be happy to see you. We’ve been happy to see everyone we’ve ever met through office hours. It’s fun to meet people.)
Posted in Office hours & bloggers' picnics | 5 Comments »
Last week Caltech harvested its campus olives and sent them off to be pressed into olive oil.
Olive harvesting
Trees in the lineup
More links:
Tags: Local food, Olive oil, Olives
Posted in Caltech, Farmers' markets & locally grown food | 4 Comments »
Under the lily pads
Posted in Caltech, Nature, Ponds | 1 Comment »
