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              France on Film: Mont Saint-Michel and Paris. #analog #abroad

Happy belated, Frank. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

Per Marwa, April 2015. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

              From Fall 2014. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

Opus 40 is a 6 ½-acre bluestone sculpture located in Saugerties, N.Y. The sculpture was single-handedly constructed over a 37-year period by Harvey Fite using dry-key stone techniques adapted from the Mayans, comprising millions of pieces of indigenous bluestone, laid by hand. 

The Eames Theme: Case Study House No. 8 also known as the Eames House. Pacific Palisades, California. Photos by Amy Aronoff.

Frank Lloyd Wright's last LA building project, Anderton Court Shops. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

Pieces of a polystyrene foam replica of George Washington's nose from Mt. Rushmore, by the artist Piero Golia as part of Hammer Museum's recent "Made in LA" exhibition. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

             Sunset Boulevard (top) and Venice Beach (bottom). LA, 2014. By Amy Aronoff.

             Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake. July 2014. By Amy Aronoff.

             Greene and Greene's Gamble House, Pasadena. July 2014. Photo by Amy Aronoff. 

             California modernist architecture and VWs in Silver Lake. Photos by Amy Aronoff.

             Photo by Amy Aronoff.

I don't remember much about LA from long-ago family trips to the West Coast from Buffalo -- just little bits here and there (Getty Center, Jamba Juice, Ennis House). With hazy memories and visions of perfect weather days and palm trees, I was excited to get reacquainted. My preferred way of getting a feel for a place is to take a good long walk, and so, on a hot day in July in car-centric LA, I did just that. I snapped the above photo on my first full day in the city while exploring (read: getting lost in) Silver Lake. The meandering Micheltorena Street and others in the area have prime examples of modernist architecture and glimpses of stunning vistas. Also on view: Italian Cypress trees aplenty, standing perfectly straight and reaching for the sky. 

              Honolulu International Airport. Photos by Amy Aronoff.

              Slightly off the beaten path in Ko Olina. Photo by Amy Aronoff.

    Seeing letterforms outside of a chapel in Ko Olina, a vacation community in Oahu. Photo by Amy Aronoff.