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December 19: I met Rasa, my editor at the quarterly magazine I write and edit for, Coast & Ocean, to take photos while she interviewed some Mountains Conservancy staff about a couple of parks on L.A. rivers. It was a wonderful morning, both for the company and for the clearing skies--and just to be out in the world, looking around. She was flying out of LAX later that day, so we went to Union Station in downtown L.A.--where the restaurant was fully booked. So we wandered over to Olvera Street, the "oldest street in Los Angeles." When I was a kid, my mother and father and I would go down there, to La Golondrina restaurant, where my father liked the food and, I guess, the margaritas. So Rasa and I sought out La Golondrina. It was still there. We sat on the patio; I had pork stew with nopales (cactus) and tomato, and she had a chile relleno. It was excellent. And the light was beautiful. So I asked if I could take Rasa's picture. For the first couple, she ducked her head (I think she's self-conscious about her neck); but then she raised her head up and smiled, and this is the picture I got. She's beautiful.