Photoessay #2851 - SoCal sunshine

Read it and weep northerners We left home this morning...21 degrees and snowing. Here in the San Gabriel Valley, it's sunny and at 60 degrees. Glendora is surprisingly cute and homey. Check it out, here Dennis is at 3:3o this afternoon,on a bench in the little downtown, in shirt sleeves in the sun. He has to shade his eyes. Southern California is looking mighty good. This evening we went to an Argentine place in a strip mall with rave reviews. We add ours. Rika's Empenadas. When was the last time you went to a place and said "they ought to charge more for those. For $24 we got 9 empanadas from bleu cheese to egg plant, to ricotta and spinach. All fabulous. Plus this desert which should be outlawed, full of crumbled madeline cookies, cream, the caramal du leche stuff and peaches. The caramel stuff, just oozed smooth calories.