The Venice Canals

I've been to Venice, Italy and Venice, California. Don't get me wrong, every single part of Italy is fantastic. But for California, one of the prettiest places in Los Angeles is the Venice Canals. There used to be tons of them, but now there are only six. I am very fortunate to live near them. The boyf and I walk them at least once every two months. You can never really see the same thing twice. There are also canals in Naples, CA, but they are big and overbearing and just too much. These pictures, taken with both an old and a new cell phone, don't really do the Venice ones justice. The topiary, the architecture, it's just incredible there. I'll go there with my regular camera and take some real pictures for you. Look, one guy even built himself a lap pool! The boyf says that furniture is sorta famous. At Christmas (see? there's that word again) they wrap the cross bridges and people put lights on the palm trees and all the lights on the houses and the little boats reflect in the brackish water. Everyone seems to have a canoe or a kayak, but you hardly see anyone rowing. There's even a little Canal Christmas Parade, which we miss every year. People like Anjelica Huston have houses on the canals. Someday, it would be nice to have one there too. I'm sure she's an excellent neighbor.