From a Produce Stand to the Academy's Oscar

Each artist has their own muse.  For my wife, it's writing,  for me, it's found behind the lens of the camera.  

Before a recent trip, my wife asked if she could use one of my cameras to capture her trip to visit her Pacific Coast and also our son.  Sure - why not!

Apparently, while attempting to go one block south of Hollywood Blvd, to get to a fresh produce market for our son's restaurant, Bryan told his Mom to wait, and he'd make the mad dash through the traffic.  The Los Angeles Marathon had most of L.A. in a nightmar-ish maze of angered drivers behind steering wheel and honking horns.  Ann stayed with the car, and Bryan took off in search of  escarole and cloverfield greens.  

Ann began to walk towards Hollywood Blvd.  She caught some shots of the old Holloywood Playhouse on Vine, which I will publish later.  But, I did enjoy her simplistic shot of the famous Hollywood & Vine marker.  How many wayward dusty road dreamers have stood underneath the cross signs of Hollywood & Vine?  Eyes blinded by technicolor romance with the likes of Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn and Sophia Loren.  

Ann shot this sign and described it as entrance or net of sorts to catch impetuous drama hounds, set on finding the gilded doors of Paramount or 20th Century  Studios, and acting along the long road with dreams of holding Oscar in their arms one day.