Showing posts with label Turtles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turtles. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2015

What I Saw On My Walk Yesterday...In Hollywood

This mishmash of housing styles all on the same streetYou've got your Art Deco and your...well, the other ones.


These guys that are really tired of holding this place up.  Seem to have a bit of a rash on their chests - probably eczema if WebMD is anything to go by.  Unsure if it's related to the strain of holding the place up...
This incredibly amazing photo taken by a very talented person.  That I like to call...me.
Well this is clearly where my parents went wrong.  No wonder this blog isn't successful.
And just around the corner from the Catholic education...a different kind of education.  And they deliver.  So...

Apparently he does not deliver but his weed cards are $25 and he is dressed like a marijuana leaf.  You might have to step up your game, Catholic Education....
I'm uncertain about Easter advertising protocol but I don't think Easter eggs go with kegs.  I could be wrong.
Can't imagine why anyone would put this couch out on the street - the fabric is lovely.  You can make that work in any room.
And look a contrasting two-seater!
I would like a Covertible.  And a Pass Van.  And then I would like to know what they are.

Just a little something I spray-painted while out on my walk*.
Wandered through the Hollywood Farmer's Market - they don't like you taking pictures so I pretended to take a selfie.  In hindsight, my selfie looked better.

A fine picture of the stalls with a bunch of annoying people in the way.
Arty shot of El Capitan box office.  Santa stuck in the eaves and in terrible pain...
Grauman's Chinese Theater...and all the people in the world.  Don't go over there.
The joy that is Hollywood and why I walk.  And never go there.
More Hollywood class - who wouldn't go to a bar called the Rusty Mullet with kids on the roof.  That kid looks petrified and has backed into the corner.  Someone get the baby off the roof!!!
Spidey takes a quick break.  Spidey not as limber as he used to be.  And quite grey...
Hollywood stars - I make a habit of not stepping on the stars as I think it's rude.  I am the only person who thinks this and it makes me look like I'm playing hop scotch.  Luckily it's Hollywood and I look completely normal.
Had myself a dramatic moment outside of here.  Did a farewell WWII scene.  Did not get noticed.
I don't know what this is.  I just know it doesn't work anymore.
Jim Henson Studio - that is the happiest place on earth.  Except for the fact that he's dead.  But Kermit is still alive.
Better keep my walking speed down
Oh oh - 42 in a 35 mile zone.  My legs are going lickety split
No big deal, just a cow eating a flamingo.  Happens all the time here.
We've fallen and we can't get up...
Game anyone?  Just FYI - Scrabble is my sport.  You will not take me in this.
Looks like a good night out.
Get your animal skins here! 
Just drive through and pick up your cancer.  No need to be inconvenienced
Trees.  Or spaghetti.  Well, it was an Italian restaurant.
Urban tree.  It'll make it, plenty of life left in that.
Official Hollywood sign which is very unHollywood looking.  Just a suggestion but I think glitter might be the key here.  And a BeDazzler...
Unofficial Hollywood sign.  Probably didn't make the cut.  Because of being backwards and all.  And no glitter...
Top right - you missed a bit.
Turtles kissing.  Very similar to turtles fighting as the little one barely escaped with his life moments after this touching moment was taken.
Hi, hi...just going to climb up over you.  No, don't move, I got this.  Update:  Did not got this and fell back in the water where it swam off in mortified silence.
Newly dating.  As usual the man is uncomfortable with a little too much PDA from his turtle.
Unrelated to anything but a pretty good picture of Jax from SOA. 
My neighborhood is well-protected.
And I'm pretty sure this is what they mean by security.  Animal Defense Technology.  Level: Lion
Safety (and Albert) first.
And to finish up this walking series, a delightful video of turtles.  Unaccompanied by music because I don't know how.
 

 *Well it was already done when I got there, but that's what I was going to do...

Monday, March 23, 2015

What I Saw On My Walk Today...

I have a habit of taking a walk on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I walk for about 6 miles around my neighborhood and yesterday I decided to walk to my storage unit- a round trip of 7.6 miles - and get some of my cushions to change up my place a bit. I walked through my neighborhood which is very Jewish, into the bottom part of Koreatown and ended up in a Peruvian/Ecuadorian community where I discovered that my cushions had been stolen from my storage unit. Luckily, I found them under my bed when I got home. Clearly the thieves changed their minds and decided to return them.  All in all a very culturally diverse trek.

Along the way, I saw a lot of interesting things - a lot of last night's dinner on the sidewalk in Koreatown. I didn't take pictures. I also had a carful of boy racers do a u-turn so they could pull up alongside and all blow me kisses. So that was nice. Scary but nice.

Toda House - where you go for all kinds of barbeque meats...
An unfortunate signage error at Toda House.  Unless they are also now barbequing Toads.
You cannot buy cocaine or heroin here.  Only ethical drugs.

Baby Shower and Birthday Party at the park.  I stopped in for a bit. 
I'm at a loss as to what this is.  Is it an alternative way to spell "Sticks"?  Even if it is, what are Mural Sticks?  And are they clever or are they smart as in somewhat dapper looking?  Please, someone enlighten me.  I gotta get some Mural Stix for my house.
In order to make it blend in with the wall decor, the barbed wire has also been spray painted a cheery sunshiney yellow.
Just gonna drag this couch home.  4 miles to go...

#Datenightcouch.  "Hey Baby - wanna get a pizza tonight and cuddle on the couch?"
Urban cow.  Spied him wandering about the yard...

Delicious round balls of something.
Toilet planter.  Next to the car planter.  S*&% is growing wild.  See how I made a clever toilet humor pun?

Pretty sure this is Santa and the plants have eaten him...Christmas is cancelled.
99 cents?  I'll have 50.
Mural depicting life in Los Angeles.  Seems very accurate.  Back in a minute, just going to park my donkey.
Mural depicting...umm.

Pigeon Repository
Pigeon Depository


Lone pine cone just waiting for his friends to fall off the tree.
Illicit photo of the Wilshire Country Club Golf Course.  Have not yet been invited to be a member, possibly they don't know how famous I am and how financially successful my blog is...

Very artistic photo of banana palm flower and baby bananas.  These people are growing them in their yard.  I'll come harvest them when they get a bit bigger.  Probably at night time...
And back home again.  With my turtles.  Albert loves turtles
Thinking of making my Sunday walks a regular Monday morning feature.  Except for the times when I just walk to the bottom of my street.  Which takes two minutes.  Those posts  might be a bit shorter...