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Here is some more than I had time to process tonight. It’s hard to pick up the pieces, find a place to lay your head and report. I may have a few more bits, but this was all I could get done today. Please support our work while we find a new place to live and put our live. (I never thought I would be saying that!).
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Via de la Paz
Via de la Paz (The Trees are burned for any “experts” out there.
Via de la Paz
This Beautiful Italian-style house was very new and my second favorite house (next to the one below) in the Palisades. Via de la Paz.
520 Via de la Paz was my favorite new house in the Palisades. Two years into construction, they knocked down two houses and erected one, in an anti-McMansion statement, with a substantial, elegant garden. The owners only moved in a few weeks ago.
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Not much left of my friend Christopher’s building on Swarthmore, home of the world Famous Flour Pizza, the best pizza in the world, and they named a version just for me… “The Duke”
i am following this devastation from south of the equator in South America. I am so saddened for this loss Peter. I grew up near Burbank. Then moved north as a young adult and I lived in Santa Rosa, Calif for 40 years. We had three fires around us in four years from 2017 to 2020 and saw this kind of destruction. It is surreal. Then we left permanently. We've just had lots of fires here in Ecuador two months ago and we lost forests on our land but rustic house was not burned down. Lack of rain and dry conditions made for lots of forest fires. Fire fighting here is not done with water but with burn backs and shovels.
I have recently been viewing your excellent work on the Duke Report. I am praying for you and your wife and your community. If you need to get away for a bit, Ecuador is rich in culture and food.
So sorry you and all others are going through this. I heard someone in Altadena area describe similar to your heartbreaking photos. This tour must have been a difficult one for you.
i am following this devastation from south of the equator in South America. I am so saddened for this loss Peter. I grew up near Burbank. Then moved north as a young adult and I lived in Santa Rosa, Calif for 40 years. We had three fires around us in four years from 2017 to 2020 and saw this kind of destruction. It is surreal. Then we left permanently. We've just had lots of fires here in Ecuador two months ago and we lost forests on our land but rustic house was not burned down. Lack of rain and dry conditions made for lots of forest fires. Fire fighting here is not done with water but with burn backs and shovels.
I have recently been viewing your excellent work on the Duke Report. I am praying for you and your wife and your community. If you need to get away for a bit, Ecuador is rich in culture and food.
So sorry you and all others are going through this. I heard someone in Altadena area describe similar to your heartbreaking photos. This tour must have been a difficult one for you.
I can only offer prayers. Thank you for sharing.