Monthly Archives: November 2008

Garden Grill

Posted November 28, 2008 in Local Businesses

“Tales of an LA Addict” has been quite prolific lately in shooting Monrovia eateries. Here is the latest pic, of the Mediterranean Garden Grill on Foothill. Can anyone comment on the food?

Dinner at Bella Sera Trattoria

Posted November 22, 2008 in Good Eats, Local Businesses, Old Town, Restaurants

I do enjoy dining outside at Bella Sera. Nice shot by “Tales of an LA Addict.”

Keeping it Local

Posted November 18, 2008 in Announcements, Craigslist

More people than ever are looking for jobs and I’m sure the occasional bargain. To this end, I’ve added up-to-the-minute Craigslist feeds in my sidebar, all specific to Monrovia. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

Monrovia Station

Posted November 12, 2008 in Buildings & Homes, Not my photo, What the heck?


Abandoned Train Station, originally uploaded by ls2_zed.

Well, geeez, I’ve certainly posted pictures of our old train station on this blog before, but this HDR pic by “ls2_zed” takes the cake. I just had to post! Do view LARGER. I mean, criminey, does it get any better than this? I might as well bury my Canon six feet under and call it a day.

Night Furries

Posted in At Night, Critters, Not my photo

I have to say I have a soft spot for raccoons. They are just cute. Their black masks and fingers just make me melt. Usually, though, I don’t see them, despite knowing they are all around me. Tricky varmints, they are. It amazes me that skunks, opossums, squirrels and these raccoons all live in our midst and yet we rarely run across them.

Er, scratch that. I actually run across skunks more often than I’d like, or to put it another way, they run across in front of me, more like stroll, in the evening time. Thank god for that white stripe or I might not see them and…squirt! Well, you know the rest.

My dogs, on the other hand, in their olfactory adventures, haven’t been so lucky, poor little darlings.
OH MY GAWD, originally uploaded by Dom the Ghost.

Transformative Art

Posted November 10, 2008 in Art

Let’s step outside of Monrovia for a minute and see how ugly areas of buildings in other cities have been transformed. Before, and …

…After. I’ve always loved murals done for the purpose of beautifying an ugly or plain wall. Check out the work of Eric Grohe, an award-winning muralist who has transformed cities across the U.S.

OPEN THREAD: Bells or no bells?

Posted November 8, 2008 in Discussion

Has anyone else noticed that Monrovia Presbyterian Church (Foothill & Myrtle) has started playing recorded bells on the hour every hour of the day? I used to love hearing real church bells when living in Italy, when they rang in the early evening to call people to services, but these cheesy recorded bells seem like more of an annoyance than a pleasure. This happens to be the same recording that my high school used (and I lived a block away then also, well within earshot), which makes it even more tiresome for me.

Monrovia's Future Vroman's—er, not

Posted November 3, 2008 in Local Businesses, Old Town


Monrovia’s Future Vroman’s, originally uploaded by Living in Monrovia.

Locals are were finally getting the bookstore they’ve been pining for! What a nice job in renovating this former eyesore of a building.