Aaron Proctor got to the park early and saved us the best picnic spot.
Gavin, my husband, best friend and picnic co-organizer, blogs at DrawMatic.
Rita from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club
Publius and Centinel unmasked.
Just kidding. These two are actually Kelly from West Coast Grrlie Blather and Susan Kitchens from 2020 Hindsight and Family Oral History Using Digital Tools.
Miss Havisham and Larry Wilson
Gena Haskett videoblogs at Out On The Stoop.
Mike from blogwaffe, Robin Salzer of Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ, and Gavin talking, and Ed Padgett from the Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club taking a picture.
Robin brought ribs from his restaurant, Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ & Grill.
David from The Writerly Pause
Kathy from KChristieH Blog
Debbi Swanson Patrick, Altadena Above It All
Greg blogs at Apparent Horizons. He is also blogwaffe‘s roommate and dictator of the Caltech grad students’ book club. (It’s a mighty fine book club, by the way.)
Doug and Deena Willis write about the Pasadena real estate market at Up2Date.
Tableau Vivante blogs about the local farmers’ markets, and she brought Kadota and Mission figs and Kyoho grapes from that morning’s Pasadena farmers’ market.
Miss Havisham brought her famous deviled eggs.
Carol Woodliff from livewellstressless.info and Robin Salzer
Kolby Kirk of eHarmony Labs and Kahunna.net, and Aaron
Aaron and Kelli
Todd Ruiz of Under the Dome and Ed Padgett
Kolby’s electric bike
Kelly and Miss Havisham
I think an idea has just been hit upon. Maybe it was this one.
Midway through the picnic, we took a group photo in tribute to Foothill Cities and all of the anonymous bloggers and commenters in our virtual neighborhood. Debbi Swanson Patrick of Altadena Above It All was the photographer.
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Other people’s posts:
Out On The Stoop: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic – Day 6
Tableau Vivante: MISC: Ideas are dangerous things…
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: More Picnic Fun!
The Foothill Cities Blog: Bloggers on Holiday
Under the Dome: There was a picnic
Miss Havisham’s Tea Party: Building a Community
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Closed Captioning
West Coast Grrly Blather: Bloggers United
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic in Review!
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Blogroll from Yesterday’s Bloggers Picnic
Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club: Eye Level Pasadena Blogger Picnic
KCristieH Blog: Pasadena Bloggers Picnic: The Official Picture
The Adventures of Aaron Proctor: Picnic!
2020 Hindsight: Greater-Pasadena-area bloggers picnic
Altadena Above It All: Blogger’s Picnic
Susan started a Greater-Pasadena-area blogger group on Facebook.
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P.S. Gavin and I have somebody’s purple folding chair and Kathy’s tablecloth. Email me or leave a comment if you’d like them back.
P.P.S. Except for the group photo (which everyone participated in willingly), I think that if I don’t have a picture of you here, it is because you didn’t want your photo and name blogged here. If I’ve mixed things up and posted pictures that shouldn’t be online, or not posted pictures that should be, just let me know.
Thanks for coming everyone! And if you’d like to be added to the invitation list for the third quarterly Pasadena (and neighboring cities) bloggers’ picnic, leave a comment or email me at eyelevelpasadena@gmail.com.
In typical fashion, I got there late, and left early. But I enjoyed meeting the folks I had a chance to meet, and look forward to the next one, when perhaps my 2-year-old will be in a better mood.
Jill and Gavin, GREAT picnic and thanks for having us there.
I love meeting the real-life people behind the blogs I read. Thanks again, Jill, for organizing this, and thanks to “blog-curious” Gavin too. Perhaps Charlie will join us in the blogosphere too…
Jill, I have compiled a list of all the blogs present yesterday, if I have omitted anyone let me know please?
Thanks for the shindig, Jill & Gavin! It was nice to see some familiar faces as well as meeting some new ones.
Facebook foto album of picnic. Presumably it’s a public link. Lemme know if you have problems viewing. Oh, and if you’re on Facebook, I created a group for the Pasadena-area bloggers.
Rock on!!
Had a wonderful time – as always!
That’s so cool!
Has Gavin been working out? Nice derriere. 🙂
I wish I could have been there! It looks like such a fun time, Jill. I was there in spirit, if not in body and car (see my Sunday Scribblings post, I realized I was creating something because I wished I were there 🙂
I will drive that new freeway yet to Pasadena. Glad you all had such a good time.
[…] out Jill’s roundup and Ed P’s list of all the blogs that were represented, both with lots of great pictures. […]
Thanks for hosting this, Jill. It’s a wonderful way to connect outside the pixels.
Well done:)
Jill, well done. The folding chair is mine, wondered why my trunk seemed lighter on the drive back to San Dimas.
Jill,
Many thanks to you and Gavin for organizing such a wonderful event. We look forward to the next event.
I need a haircut!
I need a facelift!
[…] Jill’s lovely photos are here […]
I keep coming back here just to look at the photos!
[…] Up-UPDATE: Here’s the list of attending people & their blogs, courtesy of Ed Padgett… and Jill posted her photos of the picnic. […]
Wow, this looks great! I am sorry that I missed it. Now that I have my first 9to5 schedule in 15 years, I am AMAZED at how quickly weekends pass…
We should do a blog bowling party at Bahama Lanes.
My apologies for missing what looked to be a fun gathering…I hope all is well for you. I’ve been highly distracted as of late. Keep me on the invite list for the next one!
So sad I missed it! Hopefully next time!
It was fun to meet everyone at the picnic. What a great way to get to know others who are out there blogging! Thanks Jill, for organizing and inviting me!
Carol