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UCLA Engineering Commencement

laelene Posted in photo blog，

12 June 2010

Panda graduated today! Here are pics of the 2010 commencement for students of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA.

2010 graduates of ucla school of engineering

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomes the candidates to their commencement!

Blossoming garden

laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: flowers, nature, pictures, pretty

10 June 2010

My mom is quite the gardener, and as spring came over the southland, our whole yard was abloom!

(Click photos for full size.)

: The peach was just about to blossom.

: Flowers for the apple tree had already blossomed!

: And the pear tree had flowered too.

: This yellow lily looks like the kind I like to eat when dried.

: The birds of paradise were drying out a bit.

: The rose bush was teeming with color.

: These little flowers are so fragrant! We have a couple of bushes of them and they fill our backyard with scent in the spring.

: This white rose was tinted with pink. My mom thinks the acidity of the soil affects it, since all our flowers come out pink.

: I wonder if this one will open to look like the one above?

: These flowers are a beautiful shade of blue/purple.

: A purple “sunburst” of a flower!

: Yeah, no idea what there are called. We need image search where I upload a picture and it gets matched!

College Night at the Getty

laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: events, experiences, interesting, los angeles, nature, pictures, view

06 June 2010

Every year, the Getty invites college students to come hang out and check out their exhibits. Panda and I went to enjoy the views, the art, and the free food! They had delicious garlic fries and sweet potato fries, along with a myriad of other tasty items.

Click through for the full picture!

: Looking up at the Getty from the tram station.

: On the Getty tram going up and you get a wonderful view of the 405.

: In the background, the city of LA sprawls behind the 405.

: Just a lonely palm tree standing there! And check out the pair of birds flying by.

: Oh yes, gotta love that layer of smog that envelopes downtown LA in the distance…

: And we have arrived, up on the hill where the Getty sits.

: It looks kind of like a racket or a beaver tail.

: And down there, the party! Lots of free food and mingling people.

: Overlooking the landscape of LA.

: You can see all the way to the ocean and beyond!

: There was a lovely garden at the Getty.

: The College Night sign projected onto a wall.

: As the night sky darkened, the city brightened with lights.

: They used a lot of “quieter” lighting.

: They had an artistic maze in the garden. I don’t think it’s functional.

: I’ve never been to that part of the Getty.

: Apparently the Getty has a library over there.

: It looks like an over-sized morning glory, doesn’t it? Maybe it is.

: I tried various ISOs and this produced brighter lights, but a much grainer quality.

: And now those same lights without the graininess and much darker.

: Returning back down to the tram station to go home.

Counter creation

laelene Posted in photo blog，Tags: food, pictures

02 June 2010

The Counter is a restaurant where you check boxes on a list and piece together your own meal, from the bread to the dressing to the meat to the toppings. It’s pretty fun and you never know if your combo will be that great, but that’s the fun of it. They have these amazing onion strings (kind of like shoestring fries) that are perfectly thin and lightly breaded and fried! Yum.