Scripps Pier

Scripps Pier - La Jolla, California

La Jolla

La Jolla is a wealthy seaside resort community, occupying seven miles of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean. La Jolla in Spanish means "The Jewel". It is the Jewel of San Diego. La Jolla is located 15 minutes from downtown and is pronounced /ləˈhɔjə/ "luh-HOY-uh". Although officially a part of San Diego, California, La Jolla retains its own small-town atmosphere and its own civic pride.

Wisteria Cottage

780 Prospect Avenue - Future Home of the La Jolla Historical Society

This is future home of the La Jolla Historical Society. The cottage is located on the corner of Prospect Street and Eads Avenue in the heart of the Scripps/Gill Cultural District. If you make a trip to San Diego, be sure you stop by if you have an interest in the history of La Jolla. It's located one block from a beautiful beach - where I've been taking the recent sunset photos.

Wisteria, named for the wisteria-covered pergola in front of the entry, was built in 1904 by George B. and Edith M. Seaman, who relocated to La Jolla from Alameda, CA. The Seamans owned the property only briefly before deeding it to a son whose ownership was also abbreviated. It was then sold to E. Virginia Scripps, half-sister of beloved La Jolla philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps. With this transfer, the Cottage began its long-standing association with the community as a historical landmark where even today it remains in the ownership of Scripps family descendants until Mrs. Revelle's historic announcement to donate it to the society.

Fatherhood

As we were driving, we stopped behind this car. I've never seen this bumper sticker before.

“One night a father overheard his son pray:
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.
Later that night, the Father prayed,
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.”
Author Unknown

Great Ball of Fire

Knock Off

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Couldn't they have found something more pleasing to the eye to put right out in front of the Museum of Contemporaty Art? Speaking of eyes, what in the heck is sticking out of his??

This bronzed scupture, entitled Process Art (Dead Men Don't Make Scuptures)by LA based artist, Nathan Mabry is a joint purchase by Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles. It will be on display through May.


In this sculpture, Mabry purchased an unauthorized cast of Rodin’s sculpture, The Thinker, through the Internet, removed its patina, and then repatinated it and overlaid the sculpture with a bronze cast of an altered latex mask. I've been to The Rodin Museum in Paris and have seen The Thinker and prefer it.

Wedding Crasher

As we were sitting on the wall at the beach, watching the sun set over the Pacific, we saw these newlyweds being photographed below us. I decided to take a few shots myself. I did not have the right lens but they didn't turn out too bad. Do you ever feel a little odd taking pictures of strangers??

Young Love

As we were taking in the sunset from the cliffs in La Jolla last night, couples were everywhere! We had gone to the library and then walked down to the beach. I'm so glad we did. The sunset was amazing and I even got some shots of newlyweds which I'll show you tomorrow. Have a blessed Sunday!

Rule Breaker

I couldn't help but notice this guy talking on his cell phone when the sign clearly reads to turn it off while on the court. I think it would be rather annoying to hear one of these hot shots at the La Jolla Tennis Club yacking it up on his cell while trying to concentate on my next ace.

Alone with the kids

There is something magical about seeing a Dad on the beach watching his kids...

Where's Mom? She's certainly missing this beautiful sunset! Let's hope she's somewhere enjoying herself as well.

I want to boogie!

I saw this young man comprising whether or not to get back into the cold water and catch one last wave before the sun set. Ah to be young again! I have a few boogie boards in my garage just waiting for me to ride. I can't wait! I am determined to use them this summer - when the water warms up a bit!

How to Boogie Board

1) Buy a boogie board. You will want a boogie board with a strap to wrap around your wrist so you don't lose it. Depending on your height, for the best results, your board should come down to about where your knees are when the top is level to your head (the smaller the boogieboard the more you will be able to turn though).

2) Get up to your waist in water. You will want to be in water where there are waves. Getting yourself in water where there is no waves will make it impossible to use your boogie board.
Be ready with your board laying flat on your belly, with your hands a couple inches down on the side and from the top, your shoulders parallel to your hands, and your elbows bent and resting close to the outer edge.

3) Right before the wave crashes, push off the ground (if you choose to stand in the water), and start kicking rapidly with your feet and you can use your hands as well.

Hold on tight!!

Sunset

We had a lot of unusual cloud cover last night so I raced to the beach just in time to catch this lovely sunset. This beach in La Jolla is known to us locals as simply Marine Street. This was "our" beach in High School. The photo is untouched; aren't the colors amazing? I love nature...



I was surprised to see these children playing in the cold water with no jackets. Yes this is sunny San Diego but it does get chilly and the water is only 59(f) and 15(c)!!

I was not, however, surprised to see lovers on a sunset stroll as I was doing the same thing!

Resting Place

There is nothing like seeing a Grandfather holding his Grandchild.

Notice the lone person sitting in the **cold** waves to the left and the people on the sea-wall watching the seals to the right.

Don't forget to visit La Jolla Cove on your next visit to San Diego!

Lifegaurd Lockbox

Lifegaurd Lockbox at La Jolla Cove

I love lifeguards. San Diego lifeguard history dates back to 1917. Today there are over 230 San Diego lifeguards, making this one of the largest professional lifeguard services in the United States. Of these, 70 work full time, year round. The San Diego Lifeguard Service provides excellent employment opportunities. In addition, our Junior Lifeguard Program, aimed at youths from 9 to 17 years of age, is an extremely popular program conducted each summer with an attendance exceeding 500.

Pleasure Point

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego commissioned Los Angles-based sculptor Nancy Rubins to create a permanent, large-scale work on the west side of the museum, which was completed on January 17, 2006. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Pleasure Point is an accumulation of rowboats, canoes, jet skies, and surfboards. Attached to the roof of the museum and cantilevered above the oceanview terrace, Rubins gravity-defying sculpture is held together under tension through welds and wire. It's quite amazing!

Happy New Year

Welcome to my new blog!

We spent New Years Day in Downtown La Jolla and then made our way over to Children's Pool and La Jolla Cove. What a beautiful way to start the New Year and what a beautiful city we live in.

In 1931 the sea wall was built from Seal Rock Point across the channel and onto Seal Rock, closing off the channel and the natural flow of water to the south in order to leave an enclosed pool area. The project was conceived and funded by local benefactress Ellen Browning Scripps and was dedicated as the Children's Pool. At that time there were no lifeguards in the area, and modern swimming pools were just beginning to develop. Today many children enjoy seeing the seals and benefit from learning about them. It is still "The Children's Pool." see http://www.lajollaseals.com for more info.

The brown pelican is the smallest member of seven species of pelicans. There are four subspecies of brown pelicans, two of which reside in the United States, the eastern brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis) and the California brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus). The California brown pelican, as of October 13, 1970 was listed as endangered on both the Federal and State level.