How to get to know a new place? Listen to the voice of their poets....

The kitchen teems with unparalleled smells of
chickens frying, rich gravies bubbling, cinnamon toast broiling
the morning coffee boiling and perking and dripping
and sugar iced tea pouring from a far bellied stainless steel pitcher
into sweating glasses.

see
GRACE (CD)
by
Barbara Bullard
(and in a part of the country where IMAGE is everything...
please note: Barbara is blind)

Read more about her and her work here...
About Poetry (SoCAL) Website...

Palos Verdes - Tide Pools

The Belmont Pier in Long Beach, California

California Sun...

FLORA AND MORE-A!

Once the morning fog lifted on the first day here in Long Beach, it was easy to recognize the difference in climate between here and the Adirondacks! The colors, although fading because of the approach of California 'winter', are still magnificent!

What a warm welcome...