Grand Central Market, Los Angeles, CA
November 2015
Food market. Neon. Hand written signs. Tacos. Heaven.
Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Vancouver /
Bloedel Floral Conservatory, Vancouver
August 2015
This conservatory is at the highest point in Vancouver, and located inside Queen Elizabeth Park. Unlike other conservatories I have visited, this one is home to rare and exotic birds as well as plants and fish.
Venice Beach, LA /
Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA
November 2015
I spent a few days in LA last month, including one really fun, lazy Sunday with Danny and Brittany in their Venice Beach neighborhood.
South Beacon Firetower hike, Beacon /
Breakneck Ridge, Beacon, NY
October 2015
We hiked up Mount Beacon to the firetower, a steep and very rocky trail with incredible views of Beacon, the Hudson River and the surrounding valley. The trail is a series of switchbacks alongside an old incline railway track, which goes past the remains of the brick building that housed the machinery for the railway, and up to the firetower. I complained quite a lot (that's how I hike) (it was really rocky) (it made my feet hurt!) (it took hours) but the view from the top was rewarding and so was the chocolate Adam brought for me to eat when we rested half way up and the beer we had when we got back down. Ummm, I'm a baby.
Indoor and outdoor plants, Vancouver /
Garden (top)
Stairwell inside Western Front (bottom)
Mt Pleasant, Vancouver
August 2015
Some plants.
LA Windows /
Windows, Los Angeles, CA
November 2015
One day I'll live in a house with a garden again. Until then, there's always snooping around looking at other peoples' homes.
City Island, Bronx /
City Island, Bronx, NY
November 2015
Afraid that soon it would be too cold for day tripping, in early November we went on a little adventure up to City Island in the Bronx. It's been on my list of things to do in New York for oh... four years. City Island is a small island (one mile wide and one and a half miles long) with a ship building past and a sleepy old town feeling (you really don't feel like you're in NYC anymore. But you are!) It takes about an hour and a half to get there from Brooklyn (two trains and a bus) so I guess that why it took us a while to get around to visiting.
On our walk down the main street of the island, we found two church thrift stores. I bought an amazing boat themed sweater for $2 and Adam bought a new-looking pair of Doc Martens for $5. We trawled through a couple of nautical-junk filled antique stores (Nicolas bought small glasses for 50c apiece) and then ended up at the main attraction, Johnny's on the water, at the southern end of the island. We went for the seafood but we stayed for the pina coladas. This place is a feast for the eyes as well as the tummy, with old school signage, baskets of fried seafood and a seagull-filled patio area, and cafeteria tables where leather clad bikers sit alongside old ladies drinking daiquiris. It is as excellent as it sounds.