More on Pasadena

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We had a lovely time with Ella, Kirk, Jarrah and Hugo.  Here, we were walking along a trail at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.

  Hugo and Jarrah demonstrate their amazing Lego creations.

  Bed time now.  Ella and Kirk have a really nice art and craft style home.

We spend all of our last day in Pasadena at the fantastic Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.  Henry Huntington (1850 - 1927) made his fortune building a network of trams in Los Angeles and with his wife Arabella amassed one of the most important libraries and collections of 18th century British and French art in the world.  There is also a growing American art collection.  The photo is the outside of the library.

  Inside the library with its collection of manuscripts.

  John James Audubon (1785 - 1851), a drawing from Birds of America.

  The Ellesmere Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400).

  The Gutenburg Bible, printed Mainz, Germany 1455.

  More than a dozen different gardens make up the Botanical Gardens, including the Rose Garden.

  The Shakespeare Garden.

  The Cactus Garden.

  Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, 1770.  The British and French art is on display in what was the Huntington's residence, a Beaux Arts mansion.

  A drawing room in the mansion.

  Edward Hooper (1882 a1967), The Long Leg,  in the Galleries of American Art.

  Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed, 1894.