Jill and Kevin’s Wedding Entrance Dance. Certainly blogged by half the web, more than 12 million views, I’m behind the curve, blah blah. I felt terrific watching this. I’m this happy being married to Ellen!
We landed in Los Angeles at midday Saturday almost a month ago, and this post has been languishing. So here’s a quick compedium of what we did our first few days.
Saturday:
arrived, visited, fell asleep after watching Phoebe in Wonderland
Sunday:
had terrific breakfast at Black Cow Cafe in Montrose: poached eggs with orange Hollandaise, bacon, and tomato on corn pudding, with cheddar jalapeno biscuits; a Montrose Cristo sandwich; and coffee coffee coffee
walked through the Montrose street market, looking at odds and ends, some craft art, and some lovely produce, fish, and other foods with a picnic in mind for this evening at the Hollywood Bowl
took a nap
met with Marlene and her friends Kevin, Jean, and Tim
ate like royalty before the show
watched Janelle Monae, Chaka Khan, and Adele perform (a wonderful show)
Monday
Ellen had to be at her computer at 5 a.m. local as she’s not officially on vacation until Wednesday
I got a hair cut and browsed a bit while she worked
more nap
met with Bob Harris, friend from JD’s movie nights in Atlanta, in his Hollywood neighborhood (across from the Scientology Celebrity Centre, ooh la la) and had a nice meal
took in an improv show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, artistic home of SNL’s Amy Poehler
Bob took us on an impromptu walking tour of some sights in Hollywood, including parts of the Walk of Fame, the Pantages Theater, the Arclight Dome, Amoeba Records, and then, as a nice surprise for film buffs, a walk up a hill from Sunset Boulevard to see the Alto Nida apartment building, where William Holden’s character in Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis, lives before taking up with Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond
after saying good night to Bob, we drove up Beachwood into the hills and found ourselves among narrow mountainous tracks, with incongruously expensive homes and cars above and below us on every curve, with rare views of the lights in the city below as punctuation
The Getty Museum
Update – I’m changing these links gradually. The first albums I linked to used Flash, and I prefer a different method. I hope to have all of the links to the new type of galleries finished soon. Right now the only updates are for the 3rd of July album and the Getty album.
I’ve spent most of the morning photographing flowers and other plants here in Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge west of Pasadena. Lovely; I’m grateful for this beauty, for the opportunity to see it and make photographs of it. A small snap below, with the promise of a gallery of more to come:
