Two Fridays ago, when I spent a day in LA for a screening of P&P, I walked to North Ardmore Ave to take pictures of the house where my mother grew up many years ago, and then walk to her old high school, Hollywood High. Turns out to be an hour long walk (which my mom would do with her best friend, eating ice cream, when they chose to not take the school bus).

Along the way I wound up taking a lot of pictures of palm trees on Sunset Boulevard. I figured that would make a nice niche little blog post…

Hollywood High, my mother’s high school seventy years ago, still standing and looking good.

And coincidentally, my hotel for the night, the crummy Budget Inn on Sunset Blvd, just happened to be across from Hollywood High. I hadn’t planned that.