Gardens in the City of Angels

[selenak]

I spent the last week in Los Angeles, mostly in a conference, working, and in airplanes to and back from the US, since I really could not stay long. However, there were two days where I didn't have a tight schedule, and one of them was spent at the Huntington Gardens, courtesy of cahn who showed them to me. (Yes, despite having once spent three months in L.A. in the 1990s, I never visited them before.) Which makes this: the return of the travelling pic spam:





The Chinese and Japanese styled gardens were undoubtedly the standouts.

















Though I also liked the cacti. These in my part of the world have the nickname "mother-in-law-seats", by the way.










And the herb garden next to the Shakespeare-themed garden:






And a few non-garden pictures of LA:

Pershing Square:



My favourite detail of the Pershing Square in Downtown was the Beethoven statue, looking both odd and fitting amidst US modernity:



Where the LA Philharmonics play:



"Bees at work":



And the Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, which is one of my favourite places:

Comments

[oracne]

Those cacti are pretty awesome.

[selenak]

That's what I thought. :)

[lirazel]

Ah, so lovely! I want to go back so badly!

[selenak]

It has been a long while for me - 2013, I think. I did miss the place! (ETA: Los Angeles, that is. Huntington Gardens was new, though now I'll also miss it when thinking of LA!)

[lightofdaye]

Gorgeous photos.

And wow, the size and scale of that bookshop! Awesome.

[selenak]

The first floor is also filled with books. It's really a book lover's paradise.

[liriaen]

Ohhh Huntington Gardens! I'm glad you got to go! Waaaay back when I first visited LA, a random nice guy in a corner store told my friend and me, "you girls, you know where you should go on an insanely hot day like today? Huntington Gardens!" ... and we were all, "dhhhhpgrhhff what, where?!", assuming he was being weird or fishy, but no! He was simply being nice, and we were mighty glad in the end that we followd his suggestion. I wnet back twice and was thrilled every time. :D

[selenak]

Hooray for the random nice guy! It really is such a beautiful place.

[itsnotmymind]

Gorgeous! I love Japanese gardens.

[selenak]

They're so very very beautiful.

[cahn]

:D I knew you would take gorgeous pics! I'm so glad we got to go :D

Uh... I've never been to the Last Bookstore! How have I not known about this?? Right, next time...

[selenak]

Well, it is in Downtown. I only learned about it via my USC Librarians...

And I'm absolutely thrilled we went, and I got to meet you in person.

[thawrecka]

These are all gorgeous.

[selenak]

Thank you, that's good to know!

[yhlee]

My family used to go to the Huntington Gardens regularly when I lived in Pasadena and we loved the Chinese and Japanese Gardens best. :D Thank you for the lovely photos!

[selenak]

You're very welcome.