Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Stop and smell the flowers

Its now the third day of the time change and even though its been difficult getting up in the mornings, its really great to have that extra hour of sunlight in the evening. Let's face it, most of us are working until 5 or 6pm and to go home while its still light out is a big motivator to get outside and enjoy the outdoors a bit during the week and not just saving that for the weekend.

One thing that I've noticed this week, and maybe its all the sunlight I'm being exposed to, but Pasadena smells just like a fresh dryer sheet. In other words, you get the aroma of flowers every where, just as if it were the first day of Spring. If you haven't stopped to take a deep breath this week, go ahead and take a moment and it shouldn't be very hard to smell those flowers. I'm not sure what kind they are, but its been very, very nice waking up to that and going home to it in the evenings.

Pasadena is very characteristic of a lot of Los Angeles in that we are exposed to a lot of sunshine, however we build our lives around it and appreciate it. We're not like a New York or a Boston, but seem to have a little more landscape instead of being a concrete jungle. Maybe that's the reason public transportation isn't the greatest here and we Southern Californians will drive to get down the block since we all have cars to get around, but you know what...I'll take it.
Give me a bunch of different cultures, lots of great restaurants, taco trucks a-plenty and as much sunshine and flowers as I can stand.
I love LA...Pasadena to be more specific. :)