Nature wins the beauty contest…
I came across this video today and it’s really breath taking. Its easy to forget that the most beautiful things in the world aren’t man made at all. Look at how this flock of birds…thousands of them…fly together with the changing winds. It’s remarkable.
Before I left Cali for the holidays I went on a hike near my place. The sun was setting behind the hills and it was too awesome to let go. I used this new app on my iphone called 360 cam (or something)…how cool is that?! you can just scan your environment and it catches it all. ridic. i was happy to take the time to get this picture since i was running this hill and was, frankly, out of breath. thank god for beautiful nature scenery to provide decent diversion.
Over the holidays I was in Atlanta and spent a lot of time outside as well. The weather was amazing, leaves turing to fall and the trees and hills beautiful. Gus made a new friend in a Labradoodle named Harry so they provided endless entertainment for sure. It’s hilarious how the small dog always thinks he’s bigger than the MUCH bigger dog. Note Gus getting ready for a walk only to yank Harry to hurry up…then they walked happily together at Gus’ pace. He’s a freakin’ bully now. Little bastard.
On the far right is Gus and Harry exploring the backyard forest. Look how amazing those trees are? The funny part is that Harry knows not to go too far off into the forest but, with Gus’ horrible influence, they wandered off a million times forcing us to chase after them squeaking a toy to get them to come back. Again, little bastard, i tell ya!
Once back in LaLa Land the air was crisper than before. Fall is setting in, dare I say WINTER–It WAS 48 degrees this morning, after all. Christmas decorations are everywhere, music is playing and all Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back at Starbucks–the true sign of winter.
Walking through the Hollywood Hills I came across this view that was too good to pass up. That’s downtown Los Angeles in the distance through some wicked trees and sunshine. We had just had 2 days of insane Santa Anna Wind rip through but it cleared out the sky and smog for a great view. It also destroyed all kinds of houses and shit but we’re here to focus on the zen nature, ok?
After the nature walk I ventured to tourist land, aka the Universal Studios City Walk.
The lights at the City Walk were out of control. Like all high tech and trippy. This pic doesn’t really do it justice since the tree looked like something out of Dr. Seuss and changed colors all the time. It was really beautiful for sure.
This got me in the holiday spirit. Last night, while wrapping up the amazing music producer Adrian Bradford’s birthday party, I started singing some Christmas tunes with Grammy-winning producer and songwriter, Walter Afanasieff. Walter’s pretty hot shit right now since he wrote and produced Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” which is now a Christmas classic. It’s also on the
charts right now with little artists like Justin Bieber, Lady Antebellum, Glee, Michael Buble and Mariah, of course. Congrats to Walter! On the Right is a clip of us singing part of “Oh Come All Ye Faithful.”
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Ok…Granola, Hippie, Nature Mann is done for today. Wow.
