On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
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…
Paused a couple nights in Santa Barbara to walk & bike along the beach, explore the pier, the harbor, dine outside with friends…
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.
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?).
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.
And the lines of this ‘Zen garden’.
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.
The Siberian Iris were in bloom. Glorious…
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. >
Steve in the ATL
I just love California. Well, except for the Dodgers.
Betty
Looks like a wonderful area to visit.
eclare
The vertical wall of art is awesome!
UncleEbeneezer
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.
Llelldorin
Trivial nit that ‘techers are obsessed with: Lowercase ‘t’ on Caltech.
Mike in Oly
Beautiful shots! Those aren’t siberian irises tho – they are spurias.
stinger
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!
Mary G
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.
JanieM
@eclare:
Agreed. Wow!
Nice sampling of shots, too.