History, Los Angeles County

St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral is unbelievably ornate, so today I am confining the post to the dome. Artist William Chavalas created ...

I was going to blog aboaut a mosaic on Monday but my fingertips melted and got stuck to the keys. I managed to knock over a glass of ice t...

It rhymes! Finally made it to the Pompeii exhibit at the California Science Center. And the artifacts from Pompeii--including the ash shel...

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times described new tax benefits to owners who restore buildings that are on either the National Registe...

Last week's Mosaic Monday post featured the tiled dome of a church just outside Beverly Hills. It led a friend to mention to me that...

It's probably a law of nature that the minute a post is up, one finds more to add to it. So here are some more suggestions for Los-An...

Some fascinating stories about Los Angeles and its history are circulating. The picture is of Lake Cachuma, a lake most of us have seen and ...

I snapped this picture while driving down Pico and looked it up later--the mosaic dome topping the cupola is part of St. Timothy's Cat...

Nothing says harbors and longshoremen and tattoo parlors like a 61-foot rubber duckie, right? As its creator, Florentjin Hofman, says,  “...

This week, we're going to Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, just 15 miles south of San Francisco. Here's a closeup of  the ab...