Eye Level Pasadena

Under the lily pads

Gena at Out On the Stoop posted video footage from our last Pasadena bloggers’ picnic.

It reminded me of how much fun I had that day — and it also reminded me that the 3rd quarterly picnic is coming up soon. If you are a local blogger and would like to receive information about the next picnic, please leave a message in the comments. All Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley area bloggers are welcome.

Tags: Pasadena bloggers' picnics

Frog in hiding

Tags: Frogs

I’ve been playing hooky here for the past month or so, and in the meantime, I’ve been working on something new. I’m a stepmom, and the kids’ mom and I decided to start a blog with stories about our experiences and ideas and tips about raising kids in two houses.

It’s called The Doughtie Houses Exchange, which was originally the name we gave the envelopes we’d give the kids to put in their backpacks and deliver to the other house. (Don’t worry — this wasn’t — and isn’t — our only method of communication. We also talk on the phone and email constantly.) But our kid-mail system was symbolic for both of us of how we try to cooperate between houses — how we make sure the other house has copies of all the important papers, for starters. So we named our blog after it. I’m very excited about where this might go. I hope to see you there: http://thedhx.com.

And now that it’s launched, I promise to be here more, too.

Tags: Blogs, Me elsewhere, The DHX

Construction on Mentor and San Pascual

It’s a very deep hole.

Tags: South Lake Avenue

Boo! This is Gavin posting that we’re having office ours at Wheatberry today from 10:15 or so until noon-ish. They have wireless. I’ll be hacking.

Tags: Cupcakes, San Gabriel Valley coffee shops, San Gabriel Valley hangouts

Marine life and faces in the windows of the PCC administrative building

Model and artists at Castle Green

Pasadena Museum of California Art covered in vinyl

Art Center gallery

artnightpasadena.com

Tags: Art Center, Art Night Pasadena, Castle Green, Community events, Pasadena Museum of California Art

Ghosts in a tree

Tags: Halloween

Pasadena city hall

Tags: Architecture, Pasadena city hall

Office hours are on for Saturday, October 13!

We’ll be at Metropolitan (across the street from Vroman’s) from 10 a.m. to noon. Wireless is free at Metropolitan. I’ll have my laptop with me. If you want help with your existing blog, help starting a blog, help figuring out what RSS is, or if you just want to hang out and visit, come on by.

Metropolitan Coffee and Tea
716 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, 91101
Saturday, October 13
10 a.m. - noon

Also, Pasadena Art Weekend starts tonight with Art Night Pasadena (free admission to Pasadena’s art venues and free shuttles between locations).

Tags: Art Night Pasadena, Pasadena Art Weekend