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On The Road – way2blue – Road Trip to Pasadena, CA

by WaterGirl|  July 22, 20215:00 am| 9 Comments

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way2blue

We’ve driven to Pasadena to visit family a few times over the past year. Walked the neighborhoods along the South Arroyo with the stunning craftsmen-style homes & gardens. Hiked in the San Gabriels. Visited CalTech, the Wrigley Mansion Rose Garden, Arlington Garden…

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SANTA BARBARA HARBOR

Paused a couple nights in Santa Barbara to walk & bike along the beach, explore the pier, the harbor, dine outside with friends…

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VENICE

I’ve always been curious about Venice since the canals show up in TV series like Goliath and Bosch. Thought I might recognize where some of the scenes were shot (nope). Low tide with canoes, kayaks & flamingos beached along the edges.

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PASADENA

A fountain in the former Ambassador Mansions & Gardens, now a private college. The surrounding gardens, originally part of “Millionaires’ Row”, include koi ponds complete with turtles (liberated pets?).

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HUNTINGTON GARDENS, SAN MARINO

We visited Huntington Botanical Gardens on an earlier visit—around the same time as ?BillinGlendaleCA last fall. I was especially captured by the clean lines of this fountain in the California Garden.

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HUNTINGTON GARDENS, SAN MARINO

And the lines of this ‘Zen garden’.

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DESCANSO GARDENS, LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

We also visited the Descanso Botanical Gardens. A hilly, 150-acre property of mostly California oak woodland, interspersed with a variety of defined gardens connected by a network of paths. This is a photo of plant art—a vertical wall of succulents forming a landscape. Very cool.

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DESCANSO GARDENS, LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

The Siberian Iris were in bloom. Glorious…

On The Road - way2blue - Road Trip to Pasadena, CA
DESCANSO GARDENS, LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

More Siberian Iris. As a historical aside, Descanso is known for its large Camellia garden established by the former landowner, E. Manchester Boddy during WWII.

< Paraphrased from Wikipedia » In 1942, when people of Japanese ancestry were forced into internment camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Boddy purchased thousands of camellia plants from two Japanese-owned nurseries in the San Gabriel Valley run by his friends, the Uyematsu and Yoshimura families. >

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  1. 1.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 22, 2021 at 6:53 am

    I just love California. Well, except for the Dodgers.

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    Betty

    July 22, 2021 at 8:01 am

    Looks like a wonderful area to visit.

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    eclare

    July 22, 2021 at 8:08 am

    The vertical wall of art is awesome!

  4. 4.

    UncleEbeneezer

    July 22, 2021 at 8:57 am

    Well shit, next time you head to the Denas (I live in Altadena) we should have another meetup (Covid conditions pending, obv.). We have a bunch of Juicers in the area.

    The Huntington is one of our faves.  We go a couple times a month and really never get tired of it.

  5. 5.

    Llelldorin

    July 22, 2021 at 9:01 am

    Trivial nit that ‘techers are obsessed with:  Lowercase ‘t’ on Caltech.

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    Mike in Oly

    July 22, 2021 at 9:01 am

    Beautiful shots! Those aren’t siberian irises tho – they are spurias.

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    stinger

    July 22, 2021 at 10:34 am

    I’ve wanted a rill ever since I learned what they are. And now that I know about spuria irises, I need some as apparently they’ll bloom after the tall bearded, which is a flowerless period in my garden. So thanks, way2blue and Mike in Oly!

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    July 22, 2021 at 11:46 am

    Descanso Gardens is one of my favorite places on earth. Something is almost always blooming. I need to get back to see the succulent wall.

  9. 9.

    JanieM

    July 22, 2021 at 1:25 pm

    @eclare:

    The vertical wall of art is awesome!

    Agreed. Wow!

    Nice sampling of shots, too.

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