January-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

27 Feb 2024

It was a special Saturday in January. January 27th. A very special chamber music Saturday with string quartet Salastina in concert inside our Mother Mausoleum on Marengo Avenue. It was all there. The Stained Glass. The mausoleum sound acoustics. Our “Story of Christianity” ceiling fresco. Thanks to our performers and everyone behind the scenes that made it all such a wonderful event.
After the concert on January 27th, quite a few visitors wandered through our mausoleum and found our New Radiance wing in all her glory. New Radiance combines traditional stained glass with a modern Peter Max visual sensibility. It’s a rather glorious effect. Small wonder that so many people spend time visiting and revisiting New Radiance.
Those rains came as they do every January and our cemetery grounds became greener than green. After all that welcoming rain, you could almost describe our Mountain View grounds as The Emerald Isle. Yes, we had the look of Ireland in all her glory.
The Oscar nominations have arrived, and director Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer was nominated in multiple categories. As all our neighbors know, many of the period scenes were filmed locally in Sierra Madre. One of the major characters portrayed in the movie was our own Professor Richard Feynman, now resting in our scenic Founders Lawn area of Mountain View Cemetery.
Thanks to all our volunteers that visit us every so often to help clean our cemetery markers. You may have seen the interview with them a few weeks ago on TV. Neighbor Ariel took time out from spraying and scrubbing to say hello and give us a wonderful smile. Ariel lives only a few minutes walk from Mountain View and is always a welcome visitor.

Can you feel it in the air? Yes, Valentines Day is closer than close. We know all our flower shops are getting ready for their big day. Speaking of a big day. It’s almost here. The first day of Baseball 2024. Go Dodgers!

Till we look out the window here at Mountain View once again…

Text and photos by Denny Dormody (FD 3383)
Awesome Research by Oscar 1