So. Cal Trip: Day 1 - Venice Beach

It has been quite a while since I have been back to Los Angeles. After the move to Washington, we would go back to visit family at least once a year but since most of our family has moved to other areas we have not been back in a long time.

Heidi and I recently had an opportunity to visit LA, and since Heidi had never been to LA, we had to visit Venice. We had lunch along the walk and had a great time people watching and shooting some photos. As we were eating lunch, we watched an artist across the walk from us that was quite a character. He engaged most everyone that walked by but not in an aggressive manner, rather to make people smile and to just have fun. We stopped by to check out his spray paint art work and got to talking. He asked where we were from and when I said Washington State he got even more inquisitive. It turns out that he grew up in Seattle and went to Garfield High School. So when we said that we lived in Wenatchee he knew right where we were talking about rather than giving us the blank stare of "what did you say?". Check out Tony B.Conscious if you are in Venice as he is a cool cat and a great artist. We also had the pleasure of talking with and photographing Harry Perry. Harry is the longest running street performer on Venice and quite a nice, well spoken man. Venice is a funny place!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Perry_(musician)
Here are some photos from our day in Venice.