Tag: architecture

March 1, 2013 /

My angels, this has been a whack-a-do year… And, I am going to take a short break from blogging to confer with the publishers of my… ro·man à clef   /rōˌmän ä ˈklā/ Noun A novel in which real people or events appear with invented names. If I were still young…

February 26, 2013 /
February 18, 2013 /

From inspection at the fabricators: To Oscar’s big night out:

February 17, 2013 /

See, four Oscars – I forgot to mention Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett won best screenplay as well. It’s been a harbinger of things to come for a long time… Billy Wilder wins Best Director for “The Lost Weekend” at the Golden Globes.

February 13, 2013 /

I’m very interested in the derivation of ideas and that takes me on some winding paths on which I invite you to join… I was scrounging around for images like these for… ah, tomorrow… you know, Valentine’s Day: When I stumbled across this on IMDb – Movies, TV and Celebrities:…

February 11, 2013 /

I was running around town with my sweetheart and I snapped these photos with my ancient, but mighty, iPhone. This is a neighborhood at the southern edge of Korea Town, south of Wilshire Blvd. When I was a little girl I used to have dreams about Los Angeles. It was…

February 9, 2013 /

A romantic rendezvous on Sunset Blvd. . . Profiterolles glacees au chocolat aka cream puffs with chocolate sauce are actually pretty easy to make. If anyone wants the recipe let me know and I’ll post it – it would be a “wow” to feed your sweetheart on Valentine’s.

January 19, 2013 /

There are stairs from street to street all over Beachwood Canyon. I had a friend who counted them – I think she said there were four hundred (stairs, not stairways) – she used them to get in shape for her wedding gown. (Lord, children, she was fit!) Here’s a picture…