SueBee Arts

Ever hopeful that our Southern California heat-spell, our never-ending summer, will finally turn to autumn, I’m posting these garden photos as inspiration for cooler days. They were taken at the beautiful Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino. ~SueBee (photos by SueBee)

A collection of reflections from the Huntington Library & Gardens in San Marino. ~SueBee (photos by SueBee)

My niece and her 5 year old son are visiting America for the first time, coming from a very small farm village in Northern Germany. They first stayed with friends in Alamogordo, New Mexico, for two weeks, then flew to LAX where my oldest daughter, Angelika, picked them up. They stayed with her for a few days, then […]

Taking a drive to Riverside County’s Temecula is a visit to wine country, Southern California style. It’s not as grown up as the wine regions above San Francisco, or north of Santa Barbara, or the Paso Robles area, but it’s getting there! The vines are maturing, the wineries building and expanding, the brown earth gradually […]

Today’s Foto Fix was taken at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. Lady in the bright red hat, being guarded by her fierce dragon cane, caught my eye! ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

Having a hotel room on the 16th floor, along with the miniature setting on my Nikon d5100, assisted in my shrinking of San Diego! 🙂 ~SueBee (photos by SueBee)

Peaceful, cool, Bolsa Chica Wetlands, just a wee bit up the coast from Huntington Beach pier, brings a wonderful place for bird watching, or a bit of quiet time. SueBee (photos by SueBee) From their website, “The Bolsa Chica includes over 1400 acres of undeveloped wetlands, lowlands and lower mesa.  This area is rich with history […]

Continuing from yesterday’s post, the photos in this gallery were taken by Kat, as I drove, and we explored parts of West Los Angeles. ~SueBee (photos by Kat)

Cruising around West Los Angeles, on or near Melrose Avenue which runs east/west across the city, this gallery of photos (part 1 today) was taken by Kat as I drove. Los Angeles is an interesting city, even in the normal everyday, and it was difficult keeping an eye on the road! I pulled over often as […]

The photos in this gallery were taken last Saturday as I wandered around at South Coast Botanic Gardens in Rancho Palos Verdes, Southern California. It’s a beautiful place; I highly recommend a visit. ~SueBee (photos by SueBee)

I expect many of us have seen the gorgeous, bright pink flowers of the silk floss tree, but have you ever seen that same tree in yellow and brown? I spotted this beautiful specimen at the South Coast Botanic Gardens this past weekend. One might expect the yellow flowers to turn brown as they’re drying up and ready […]

Buzzing, darting about, causing people to quickly duck, were what I assumed to be dozens of large bumble bees swarming on the purple salvia. Except  they weren’t bees at all. Those frantic creatures were hummingbirds! I’ve never seen them gathered in such numbers as I saw at the South Coast Botanic Gardens this past weekend. I tried snapping clear, posed pictures, but it was […]

The past three days were packed with multiple events I was invited to, all on the west side of Los Angeles, so I stayed at my son’s place. I did manage to grab a few free hours Saturday morning, though, for a long-overdue visit to a favorite place on that side of town, the South Coast Botanic Gardens in Rancho Palos Verdes. As […]

Here’s more cool street art, in a back alley off Melrose. ~Kat (pics by Kat)

Saw some amazing graffiti driving around Hollywood…something different down every alley way. Never know what you’re going to find on the next wall! ~Kat (pics by Kat)

Friends are often surprised by some of our photos, mistaking the settings for somewhere in Europe. As our blog has hopefully proven, beauty and adventure are abundant in our own Southern California backyard. While traveling is awesome, and we’ve done much travel in Europe and throughout North America, there is more to see and do locally than we can even keep […]

This collection of posters from the first World War (WWI) was on display at the Huntington Library and Gardens when I was there visiting Stinky. Viewing the posters, one naturally reflects that here we are today, nearly a hundred years, and many “great” wars later, still killing each other. A pitiful statement of certain aspects of mankind. I personally […]

(18 photos in gallery) Lake Perris, a beautiful, man-made lake in Riverside County, was the location of my son’s 31st birthday celebration last weekend. Friends and family pitched in and rented two pontoon boats for the day. We headed this way and that across the lake, sometimes in the same direction, other times opposite ends of the lake. The first few hours had some […]

Unexpectedly beautiful is how I’d describe Lake Perris, a man-made lake in the Southern California desert, where our family camped and went boating this past weekend. More to come later….! ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)

The photos in this gallery showcase the hardy plant Kat spotted as we cruised Melrose in Hollywood and West Los Angeles this past Sunday. Among the art-encrusted back alleys we bumped along, directly behind trendy shops, struggled this tomato vine, peeping through the fence, offering its fruit to anyone who would have it. ~SueBee (photos by Kat)