It being Presidents’ Day a couple of days back, I took a short,
unadventurous walk in the neighborhood; that would be East Hollywood Of course I reckon I know the area pretty well by now, but only a
fool thinks he knows everything, and of course every neighborhood changes from
moment to moment. The burned out
apartment house in the picture above, was new to me, though it could have been
burned out for a good long time.
And I’m pretty sure that’s a new sign on the fence of the local school,
although I’d think that a kid who brings a gun to school probably isn’t all
that worried about getting expelled.
In any case I wanted to take a closer look at the Monastery of the
Angels, the home of a cloistered order of Dominion nuns, well within sight of
the Hollywood Freeway. And no, I don’t
know why it’s not called a convent. Everyone
goes on about how wonderful their pumpkin bread is, but I couldn’t see where to
buy it, and you know, a non-believer such as myself is reluctant to intrude on
a closed order, but I did get near enough to take a picture of this fellow.
I don’t know who that is. I’m
guessing it’s not Jesus, and the wings make me think it must be an angel. And the sword obviously suggests it’s a
martial angel, so I wonder if it’s Gabriel, though isn’t Gabriel the horn
blower rather than the sword wielder? I
wonder if it might be St. Dominic but I can’t find any images of him with a
sword either.
Right around the corner from the monastery you get can a view of the
Hollywood sign, and also, on this day, a view of a large, abandoned flat screen
TV. Oh, America!
Eventually my walk took me down Beachwood Canyon a place I walk pretty often, and
there was this car.
I’m a sucker for old cars, the more beat up the better, though this isn’t “my period” and I
can’t identify it any more than I could identify the statue with the
sword. Is it a Buick? Actually I can’t help thinking there was
something just a little too artful about this one. The line of blue duct tape
down the windscreen was a nice touch, though I don’t know how it would go down
with the cops. But I thought that a copy
On the Road placed very conspicuously on the dashboard was trying just a little too hard.
