Santa Monica
Coast Highway 1 by Elizabeth C. Ward
I am not without hope of delighting to find the essential Coast Road novel. Expectations defined in a previous post on two Coast Road-titled books ended with a request that, at the very least, when a book is titled, “The Coast Road,” then the reader better find plenty of setting along the Coast Road. Elizabeth … Continue reading Coast Highway 1 by Elizabeth C. Ward
Only Years by Kenneth Rexroth
I come back to the cottage in Santa Monica Canyon where Andrée and I were poor and Happy together. Sometimes we Were hungry and stole vegetables From the neighbors' gardens. Sometimes we went out and gathered Cigarette butts by flashlight. But we went swimming every day, All year round. We had a dog Called Proclus, … Continue reading Only Years by Kenneth Rexroth
Santa Monica Bluffs
Passive pensive scene with Palos Verdes at the horizon. Seemingly sublime, no? Harry Mattull paints this seaview from Palisades Park - a popular park precariously placed atop an impermanent bluff, overlying a gully-riddled, hollowed-out badland, caused by wind and water erosion on a steep clay and sandy slope. Notice how the artist paints out the … Continue reading Santa Monica Bluffs
The Coast Road 