Pasadena, California

Day 326 of my 366 Project

Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena CA. This is part of a series on the Arroyo Seco area of Pasadena near Old Town and the Rose Bowl.

Pasadena, Ca.

Alt title: TREE HUGGERS

They give the appearance of a couple of amorous drunks.

This is a shot of the Gateway Plaza building in Pasadena, CA.

Pasadena

(piercing regret)

(civil twilight)

(evening ambiguities)

(shadow box)

(harboring horizons)

(variable facsimile)

(hit & run)

(big empty)

(competing ideologies)

(impending doom)

Designed by Pasadena architect Frederick I. Roehrig as a resort hotel in 1893, Castle Green converted to condominiums as early as the 1920's.

(suburban monolith)

Pasadena Presbyterian Church has a proud past: it was the first church to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the new city of Pasadena in 1875.

In the decades since, PPC has enriched the lives of thousands of children, youth and adults through engaging worship, lively fellowship, thoughtful learning, and hands-on service to our community and the world.

We worship in English, Korean, and Spanish every Sunday.

Pasadena Presbyterian Church

585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena

Pasadena. California.

Colorado Street Bridge over the Arroyo Seco, built 1913 to connect Pasadena with Los Angeles. Once was Route 66. Vista Del Arroyo hotel in the background, built 1920, now home to U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

(gray on green)

(perpendicular plains)

Pasadena, Ca.

A steep climb.

(overstory/undersync)

(volume control)

With its wings fully extended it is easier to see how a Brown Pelican can maintain a glide ratio that appears to exceed 100 to 1 when it sails across the bayou only inches above the surface.

We are clearly in pelican season lately but this is one of a very few adult birds encountered so far on Armand Bayou.

(stems & seams)

(Jacaranda modifications)

Statue of hometown hero Jackie Robinson, who played high-school and college football here at Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena before going on to break the color barrier in his baseball career.

Pasadena City Hall, completed 1927, architects: John Bakewell & Arthur Brown.

(beyond all that)

(empty promises)

35mm film, 50mm lens

(rhythm and things)

(if only. . . )