Sci-fi Icon, Octavia E. Butler (and we’re over Covid)

Book-lover/library-lover Octavia at home. (c) Patti Perret/The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

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Huntington Library, Art, and Gardens

da-AL at The Huntington, sitting on a bench in rose garden

What better way is there to celebrate a special occasion than with an all-day excursion of gorgeous weather, strolling an array of gardens that span rainforest to desert and Japanese to Australian to more, seeing the worlds's stinkiest (and amusingly phallic) plant, eating international fare, admiring fine art museums, and ending it all with a… Continue reading Huntington Library, Art, and Gardens

A Day at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum

Van Gogh self portrait

A Day at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum by da-AL