Eye Level Pasadena

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.

Aaron Proctor got to the park early and saved us the best picnic spot.

Aaron and Gavin being silly

Gavin, my husband, best friend and picnic co-organizer, blogs at DrawMatic.

Rita from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club

Publius and Centinel unmasked.

Just kidding. These two are actually Kelly from West Coast Grrlie Blather and Susan Kitchens from 2020 Hindsight and Family Oral History Using Digital Tools.

Miss Havisham and Larry Wilson

Charlie the Border Collie

Gena Haskett videoblogs at Out On The Stoop.

Mike from blogwaffe, Robin Salzer of Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ, and Gavin talking, and Ed Padgett from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club taking a picture.

Robin brought ribs from his restaurant, Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ & Grill.

David from The Writerly Pause

Kathy from KChristieH Blog

Debbi Swanson Patrick, Altadena Above It All

Greg blogs at Apparent Horizons. He is also blogwaffe’s roommate and dictator of the Caltech grad students’ book club. (It’s a mighty fine book club, by the way.)

Doug and Deena Willis write about the Pasadena real estate market at Up2Date.

Tableau Vivante blogs about the local farmers’ markets, and she brought Kadota and Mission figs and Kyoho grapes from that morning’s Pasadena farmers’ market.

Miss Havisham brought her famous deviled eggs.

Cucumber sandwiches

Carol Woodliff from livewellstressless.info and Robin Salzer

Kolby Kirk of eHarmony Labs and Kahunna.net, and Aaron

Aaron and Kelli

Todd Ruiz of Under the Dome and Ed Padgett

Kolby’s electric bike

Kelly and Miss Havisham

I think an idea has just been hit upon. Maybe it was this one.

Midway through the picnic, we took a group photo in tribute to Foothill Cities and all of the anonymous bloggers and commenters in our virtual neighborhood. Debbi Swanson Patrick of Altadena Above It All was the photographer.

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Other people’s posts:

Out On The Stoop: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic – Day 6
Tableau Vivante: MISC: Ideas are dangerous things…
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: More Picnic Fun!
The Foothill Cities Blog: Bloggers on Holiday
Under the Dome: There was a picnic
Miss Havisham’s Tea Party: Building a Community
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Closed Captioning
West Coast Grrly Blather: Bloggers United
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic in Review!
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Blogroll from Yesterday’s Bloggers Picnic
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Eye Level Pasadena Blogger Picnic
KCristieH Blog: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic: The Official Picture
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic!
2020 Hindsight: Greater-Pasadena-area bloggers picnic
Altadena Above It All: Blogger’s Picnic

Susan started a Greater-Pasadena-area blogger group on Facebook.

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P.S. Gavin and I have somebody’s purple folding chair and Kathy’s tablecloth. Email me or leave a comment if you’d like them back.

P.P.S. Except for the group photo (which everyone participated in willingly), I think that if I don’t have a picture of you here, it is because you didn’t want your photo and name blogged here. If I’ve mixed things up and posted pictures that shouldn’t be online, or not posted pictures that should be, just let me know.

Thanks for coming everyone! And if you’d like to be added to the invitation list for the third quarterly Pasadena (and neighboring cities) bloggers’ picnic, leave a comment or email me at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com.

The evite for the second quarterly Pasadena bloggers’ picnic went out yesterday. All local bloggers are invited and welcome. If you did not receive the evite and would like to, email me at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com, or leave a comment here below.

Miss Havisham’s deviled eggs

The second quarterly Pasadena bloggers’ picnic is being planned for late August. If you’re a local blogger and you’d like details, email me (jilldoughtie@gmail.com) or leave a comment with a link to your blog below. All local bloggers are invited.

Here are a few more pictures from the bloggers’ picnic:

Miss Havisham’s deviled eggs

Chez Shoes’s shoes (lighting advice for this photo provided by The Blurry Lens)

Also, Erin shared the cooking instructions for the mint cream filled cupcakes she brought (pictured below) on her blog.

This weekend was the First Quarterly Pasadena Bloggers’ Picnic. Gavin and I visited with old friends and we met new friends who we had only known online before yesterday.

James from PasadenaNow.com

Kathy and Sam from Aphrodite in Jeans

Amanda and Theo from Living in Monrovia

Sarah from Cook and Nifty Wench

Frank from Unwired Adventures

Marielle from Chez Shoes and Ron from The Blurry Lens

Kelly from West Coast Grrlie Blather

Susan from 2020 Hindsight and Family Oral History Using Digital Tools (Why, oh why, did I take only one picture of you, Susan? I was so absorbed in our conversation that I forgot to keep using my camera!)

Even worse, I was so intent on photographing the cupcakes that my friend Erin from erin’s kitchen brought that I forgot to take a picture of her.

Erin from erin’s kitchen’s cupcakes

In lieu of a picnic photo, here is a picture of me and Erin at a conference we went to together last year:

me and Erin at BlogHer

Back to the picnic:

Mike from blogwaffe and Automattic

Dianne from Miss Havisham’s Tea Party

Kolby from Kahunna.net and Aaron from Aaron Proctor for Mayor of Pasadena

If you blog in or around Pasadena, and you would like to be on the email list for the next Quarterly Pasadena Bloggers’ Picnic, send me a note at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com.

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Update 6/20/07: Pasadena Pundit was previously pictured here, too. He elected to move in a fewer photos of himself on the internet direction, so I removed his picture at his request.