The Bluffs

I'm thinking of getting some sights out of the way.

I like the bluffs. I've seen larger bluffs and played on larger bluffs and climbed up and slid down and enjoyed a great day.

These aren't those bluffs.

These seem to be really only regulated, probably due to erosion. But bluffs are cool, and these urban bluffs might be the most citified ones in the Southland.

Viewable along the bike trail on the beach, if you head south from the Queen Mary area entrance of the trail, there will be this formation in the bluffs before you get these signs:

The mural painted on the unused base of a building is vibrant and beautiful. I'd love to climb up it, but most days I casually ride by there are folks stationed there, and I usually have stuff to do in Belmont.

Go figure...

New Courthouse Coming Along

The new courthouse is coming along between 3rd and Broadway down near the 710.

I live close enough to the site to be able to have been watching it go up for the past few months...

Here's a close up as I think about something...

Here's a picture from months ago...I like the spider like arms of the great diggers.

When I was younger, I would have been prone to considering hopping a fence at night and check out the site, but now? I'm too old to be hurting myself hopping fences and getting arrested for such shenanigans.

That's what I try to convince myself of everyday, anyway...

Signal Hill

Oh boy, of all the things, might as well start with a discussion of the spot where the background picture was taken.

I take as many visitors as we get (not too many) up to Signal Hill for nice views of our city. Here are a few fine folks that don't live in Long Beach but who have, obviously, enjoyed a view from the Hill:

Such an easy place to take people.

Also, an easy place to check out the pyramid:

So, this is how I'm really starting this blog, with pictures that only mean something to me, those folks in them, and the people who know them/us. But I do know a thing or two about Long Beach...well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but I do want to talk about things that may matter a little to those of us who live in the International City.

Introduction

Wishing everyone a Happy 420 on this hazy Friday morning!

I wanted to start adding things that the missus Blonde Giant and I were doing in our local 'hood of Long Beach to our Invasion site, but that seemed a little weird. We could, I suppose, invade Park Pantry or the Second Saturday festival in the East Village area.

I felt that a Long Beach, and widening it to a more rounded "Things to do in LA on a local by local basis", specific site could offer its own rewards.

So that's the impetus for this site; more things to do and see and eat in Long Beach, and eventually to a wider arena of activity.