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| Lunch at Julienne
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| Julienne in
San Marino, where we ate lunch, and a huge tree. Could it have
naturally grown so smoothly ovoid or is it regularly maintained? (If
so, how?)
| Inside the restaurant looking out, as seen from where we sat. My that's
an enormous bouquet!
| Another perspective on the inside of the restaurant and its antler
chandeliers.
| My soup of the day special: carrot, squash, and tomato. Good. It
tasted mostly of carrot but had a bit of tang from the tomatoes. The
bread they brought us when we sat down, a tasty rosemary-raisin bread,
is in the background.
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| Di Yin's grilled shrimp and asparagus salad with diced papaya and
pineapples, all in a vanilla bean vinaigrette. Good. Nicely grilled
fresh shrimp. Note the grill marks on the asparagus too.
| My warm sandwich with roasted eggplant, roasted red pepper, zucchini,
basil, and mozzarella on some sort of squishy bread. Good. Also, don't
miss seeing the huge--I mean it!--strawberry on the far side of the
plate.
| A great shot of the colorful insides of my excellent sandwich.
The sandwich, with only a single layer of vegetables, was lighter than
it looks. The basil taste really came through because they used whole
leaves.
| The market and deli attached to the restaurant. Note the many pastries
in the case at right, including some enormous cookies.
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| Many of the restaurant's dishes and components thereof are available in
the to-go section. For instance, they sell various aiolis, dips,
chutneys, condiments, and dessert sauces, in addition to the prepared
salad, sandwiches, and soups.
| Some of the many neat books available in the market. I took a picture
of this section partially because we were going to Paris in two weeks,
and here are some books in dining well in Paris.
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| The Huntington
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| The Huntington's estate's entrance.
| Looking back toward the walk in from the parking lot.
| A panoramic movie of the Huntington's grounds just inside the front
gate. I accidentally took this at low resolution.
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I wish I took a picture of the huge bamboo grove seen halfway through
the previous video. Or at least I wish the video was higher resolution.
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| A clever sign telling people to not write on nor carve messages into the
bamboo.
| One of the wider paths in the garden. The Huntington has lots of
varieties of palm trees.
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| Huntington: Desert Garden
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| A typical path within the desert garden.
| There's a wide variety of plants in the garden, not just cactuses but
also low-lying shrubs.
| A high-resolution shot of an entrance to the desert garden. The colors
are shocking but I swear I didn't modify this image at all.
Excellent.
| A 360-degree panoramic video from part of the garden. The video
focuses for a while on some strange log-like cactuses. Also, don't miss
the regularly branching cactus near the end.
Sorry my camera
was still accidentally set to low resolution video recording.
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| A mass of cactuses. Excellent.
| Vibrant desert garden flora.
| Is it a flowering cactus or that a flowering vine climbing up the
cactus?
| Peppers, looking much like those we eat.
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| Trees covered with bark that looks like thick hair and topped with
points that look like spiked hair.
| I assume this is a parasitic plant sprouting off this cactus.
| Spherical cactuses about the size of a basketball. They make me think
of those geometric ways of constructing a sphere with straight lines.
They're more dangerous than they look. (The spikes stick out, not just
down.)
| A area of the garden with many even larger spherical cactuses.
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| This spherical cactus has a nice ring of flowers surrounding its
sand-garden on the top.
| I took a picture of the label so I could check whether the flowers are a
normal part of the plant. They are.
| This video was meant to show the incredible number of bees above this
flower patch, but because I accidentally recorded it at a low
resolution the bees turn out to be difficult to spot.
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| Huntington: Rose Garden
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| A 360 degree panoramic video of the rose garden, finally a video at a
decent resolution. It takes in the extent of the rose garden (at least
at a distance). A long video.
| A sample row in the garden.
| The main pathway bisecting the rose garden.
| Another perspective on the rose garden.
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