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11.6 mile architectural bike ride with Brian of Bikehaus as part of the East Hollywood ArtCycle.

Around 40 riders convened at the LA Cahuenga Branch Library, and headed north to Barnsdall Art Park.

Hollyhock House, 1921
by Frank Lloyd Wright

Lovell Health House, 1929
by Richard Neutra

Pretty excited to have had Barbara Lamprecht, who has written and researched Neutra extensively, on the ride with us.   

Ennis Brown House, 1924
by Frank Lloyd Wright

Moore House, 1964
by Craig Ellwood

Lunch at The Trails Cafe, Griffith Park.

Taggart House, 1922
by Lloyd Wright

Samuel-Novarro House, 1928
by Lloyd Wright

Jardinette Apartments, 1927
by Richard Neutra

Headed back to the ArtCycle event.  If you know me, you know I’m a sucker for any event which closes off LA streets to cars.  Santa Monica Blvd was closed between Vermont and Virgil, bringing to “light” the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting yard, which many in the community want to make into an urban green park.

Caught Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, performed by the Independent Shakespeare Company in Griffith Park.  It’s a summer tradition now, and is always a nice time at the old LA Zoo field, under the summer sky, with a picnic, and coyotes howling.

accompanied by Ms. Lora Hall, Thaddeus,  rachel, jill, nick rodrigues, marya.

In celebration of what is sure to be an eventful summer, fellow Silver Lake Master Gardener Lora Hall and I took to the hills of Griffith Park to see the Summer Solstice Sunset.  I have a feeling it’s going to be another great summer.

Kristin B. helped to plan an Echo Park Time Bank hike through the back trails of Griffith Park.  Doug, Meredith, and Mr. Stamen came along.  We saw things, like houses with sections of their columns missing.  Or a christmas tree planted in the random vastness of the park.

Meredith foraged the rain saturate hills for edible plants.