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Pointing and shooting, mostly from the passenger seat.  Various downtown errands, mostly recycling and donating stuff.

I was so delighted over the temporary acquisition of a real camera (thanks, Jim, for the generous loan of your Canon!), that I nearly forgot that I started the day with my old point & shoot device on a morning walk:

Grabbing some shots around the house and beyond, running around town, undertaking some P-Car research, dropping in on Janet, and finally coming across Kim & Charlie in the wild …

Being one who lives a subtly charmed life, today I was unexpectedly tendered the loan of a fine Canon DSLR as my Nikon DSLR is pretty much out of service at the moment.  So I started trying to get a handle on it (Canon vs. Nikon is like having to learn the differences from scratch of the Mac OS vs. Windows) as I walked Fourth Street.  Along the way I (1) encountered a PE class of middle schoolers who demanded that I take their pictures, and (2) noted a mysterious modification to the block between the old and new Courthouses — are they planning to turn the street into a County parking lot?:

With the main camera out of service, today’s shopping venture gives me an opportunity for some point & shoot local windshield photography while riding shotgun on the road past Walmart.

Also came across a few more seaside images — Venice, San Pedro and Point Vicente — from 1975, never before seen in positive (i.e., non-negative) form:

A little more shopping (Bella’s, arguably the best store of any kind in town, and the Nature’s Pantry) then back home with Charlie…

As a 30-year veteran of Los Angeles living, I came to be a regular and loyal reader of the Times (and did some consulting work for a few weeks at its Times-Mirror parent).  Today, brother Dennis (not only a Los Angeles resident, but a newspaper reporter in his immediate post-college days) sends me an email with the subject line that I have quoted in this post’s title), along with this content:

“​Oct. 5 issue, presented without comment.”

Today, driving around town on errands and shopping …

* Why an interest in Airstream?  Probably because this was similar to one I had in mind in the mid-70s — the idea was to equip it as a mobile photographic lab and operations base, towed by my killer ’65 Ford truck (which co-existed with the Land Rover for a time and also figured in the Venice years).  Here’s a 1977 portrait of The Truck, a sleeper hot rod.

A Sunday afternoon stroll for Ivi and Dad …