Today's Destination

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I'm in the air this morning, heading for sunny southern California. I've got a business meeting in Los Angeles all day Monday and Tuesday morning. The plane arrives at LAX at 11:30 AM today. I'll pick up a rental car and spend a happy half day shooting around the city of the angels. The weather should be perfect. Maybe I'll run into my favorite LA character, Nick Danger.

With luck, some pix should be up tomorrow.

The top photo is a new painting on the graffiti-okay part of the Mississippi River flood wall. The bottom is of Disney Hall, home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a photo I took a year and a half ago.

I love to explore Los Angeles. As the saying goes, it's an nice place - no, a great place - to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

STL DPB In Los Angeles: Disneyland

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic plays in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, a creation of architect Frank Gehry. The big poster on the left pictures the 30 year old Venezuelan music director, Gustavo Dudamel. We attended the performance Sunday afternoon. Both the outside and inside of the hall are wonders. Dudamel led the orchestra with great economy through most of the concert but became airborne in the grand moments of the Bruckner 7th.

There's an Arch photo today on Downtown St. Louis 365 today. I mean, why not?