June already, in fact, June 14. Wow. It's a glorious weekend. We had rain yesterday but today it cleared up mid-afternoon while we were at the Descanso Gardens, where they were hosting a scavenger hunt/wildlife demonstration/Cobra auto show. Yeah, odd combo, but they were. They had 4 original Cobras there, as in, Cobra, the sports car; they had 10 replicas as well. And then for the kids, there were going to be real, live cobras, as in, the snakes. Well, they're doing something right because the place was packed.

I'm enjoying a view of our seriously blooming garden with the door wide open and the smell of neighbors' BBQs drifting into the house. Debating whether to try moving the mat again on this photo I'm putting into the UCLA show in a couple of weeks. Exciting! Not the Guggenheim or anything, but I was flattered. This is the pic, of Multnomah Falls in Oregon. Akhil and I were up there over a 4-day Memorial Weekend mini-cation last month. We stayed in Hood River 2 nights, hiked the Eagle Trail, drove up to the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, and then drove out to Cannon Beach to spend a night there and see Haystack Rock. We bought loads of books at Powell's in Portland, beach-walked in Ecola State Park, and made it all the way to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville to see the Spruce Goose.

Next month, Akhil's off to England. I'm headed to Chicago. And both of us will be at the Hollywood Bowl for Eric Clapton.