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After the Rain

Posted on May 5, 2014 2 Comments

 

 

Los Angeles as viewed from Mulholland Drive, February 2009.
Los Angeles as viewed from Mulholland Drive, February 2009.

Like “The Eerie Statue” this is something that I initially posted on Facebook and chose to share here, as well.  Below is the essay that accompanied this image:

From street level, Los Angeles often seems like an endless tangle of concrete; a horrific urban sprawl worthy of being the backdrop to a cyberpunk novel. Certainly, there are parts of it that are beautiful, but these places are for wealthy or long-established households. For most, the Westside’s postwar neighborhoods–with their sprawling ficus trees and lush gardens–are unaffordable. And the further east you drive, the more L.A. seems like a suffocating expanse of pink stucco, broken sidewalks, and polluted sky. It offends the Midwestern eye. It seems claustrophobic, labyrinthine, terrifying. Stuck in traffic on La Brea, you start to question your sanity, and consider moving to Alaska to live with wolves.

And then it rains, and everything changes. [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative Life, Musings, Photography, Travel, Writing | Tagged: Essays, Los Angeles, Mulholland Drive, Photos with Essays

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