This is the view from my old apartment complex nestled into a verdant hill on the east side of Echo Park Lake, in what is technically known as Angelino Heights, Los Angeles. I'll be lurking around those sloping streets again in a couple weeks. There, and maybe Koreatown, Pasadena, downtown, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Boyle Heights, and Long Beach?
Wherever I end up, the thought of being back in beautifully bizarre Southern California is starting to make me feel like this.
* Photo by Alexis Rivera, Election Day morning, 2008.