My 647th post

Yet another day at the old office brings me closer to completion and a job closer to home. This place is moving pretty fast and the steel is going up quick, it would be nice if it were closer to home.

At least I will have the opertunity over the next couple of months to find a nice place that is close at hand to take a short vacation... Napa valley any one? I wonder if I can find a train that would go up the coast to the wine country and back leaving from Grand Central Station in Down Town Los Angeles...

Smoke

Just driving down to attend a meeting with the company down at Long Beach and what do I come across? a brush fire of a good size. Lucky it was early enough that the traffic didn't get too bad because of it.

Saturday Pictures

Two girls, four guns, one stuffed toy, 500 bullets, and over 200 pictures followed buy some really good jambalaya wraps for lunch make for an interesting Sunday afternoon.

The picture above is one of my favorites. It has nice depth and a good layout, not to mention that she just looks damned sexy like a Bond girl..

Depuity Inspector, Judge Dread

You didn't see this man

Bahooka

Wednesday night dinner at Bahookas, sadly being a Wednesday no drinking..

Naturalized parrots are frequently seen and heard around Pasadena. According to local legend, many were released during a 1959 fire which destroyed Simpson's Gardenland and Bird Farm in Pasadena.

Some of the parrots were probably pets that escaped or were set free. Some may have been released by smugglers attempting to avoid arrest. One common breed is the Red-crowned parrot, pictured here.

AND FROM WEIRD US THE FOLLOWING...

The popular theory is that a they came from Simpson's Nursery in east Pasadena on East Colorado Blvd in the Lamanda Park area. It caught on fire in 1969. (Alternately I've seen Simpson's Gardenland and Bird Farm and it burnt down in 1959) Either the parrots were released to save them or they managed to get out in time. From these parrots, the Pasadena Parrots came about. Other stories claim that the parrots have migrated up from Mexico but others still state they were originally black market birds released by smugglers .

Although no one seems sure how they actually ended up in Southern California, The Parrot Project of California has identified at least five and maybe even ten different species in southern California. The different species even inter-breed at times. Pasadena's website states that they are yellowhead amazon parrots, an endangered species that has been kept as pets for decades because they are some of the best "talkers" amongst the many different species of parrot.

The 300 at 300

Playing around with depth of field and using a polarizing filter in my neighborhood, and then off to see the boys that night.