over the weekend a friend and i visited GRUB in hollywood. it's in an old house on a little residential street. just like the house your aunt critch might live in. if she lived in hollywood. and painted her walls yellow and her chairs green and hung little lights everywhere. and never took down her christmas decorations. and rolled out a purple welcome mat and said, "come on in y'all!"
like that.
i wasn't in the mood for breakfast. so i didn't. i lunched instead. it was good.
lewis shared her crack bacon with me. no, that's really what they call it. if you go and order some you'll know why.
we ate our grub and yacked about future roadtrips across the continental divide. and stared out the window. content in each other's company. on a gray saturday in february.
I love how you doctor up your photos. I wish I could figure out how to do some of this stuff with my computer and my iPad, but right now I'm way too busy playing with crayons. Sennelier oil crayons, but crayons all the same. I'm in way-too-arty-to-do-techie-mode right now. I truly admire how you can go between technical proficiency with your electronic "tools" and really-o, truly-o creative with art supplies. MAM---a woman of many skills.
Posted by: Michele Unger | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 10:32 PM
If used to take my parents there for breakfast when they were alive. So charming and the food is fantastic. If you haven't tried their breakfast menu, I highly recommend it.
Posted by: Renee L. | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 11:00 PM
Love all the doodle bugged photos. I don't know what it is about drawing simple, lazy, wiggly white lines over photos that makes them pop and give them so much more character. I LOVE them, there I said it...LOVE LOVE L O V E 'em so much. I'm bursting with it. I love using the 'L' word especially in February. ;) And then can I just say that I can smell that 'crack bacon' all the way to MN. I can almost taste it too. I L O V E; there's that 'L' word again, super, crispy bacon. It's my down fall, the crack in my armor, my Achilles heel.... bacon...I'm so there. Bacon is great cold with chocolate drizzled over it. OH YES. I've put chocolate covered bacon bits on vanilla ice cream. I'm a bacon aficionado. I'm also quite fond of gray and cloudy days. They make me feel like it's ok to move through the day slowly and nothing to get too excited about except maybe 'crack' bacon. :)
Posted by: Susie LaFond | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 11:02 PM
the continental divide crosses New Mexico ya know...lots to draw down here!
Posted by: Leau | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 11:04 PM
I never came across that place when I lived out there, but I love the look of it, and the food looks YUMMY! love little places like that! glad you had a nice cloudy February tuna melt kinda day, xo
Posted by: natalea | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 04:26 AM
Hmmmm ... your post somehow took me back to the 50's. I'm on our annual summer road trip to 'the states', to visit the cousins. "Let's get up early and drive for awhile, then we'll stop for breakfast.' That's what we did. I watched the mountains and hills and lakes flying by, and counted white horses. Then we stopped at 'The Grub' for breakfast. Well, just like The Grub. And the three of us would talk, and laugh, and tell silly stories to the waitresses, which were somewhat less than true. My papa would say things like, "Now take my daughter here, the eskimo blood in our family really shows up in her." And I would bight my tongue so I didn't laugh and eat my crack bacon. In earlier versions of 'The Grub'. xoDonna ps: Also love what you do with your computer.
Posted by: donna Parker | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 04:35 AM
MMMMM, looks good. Even the crack bacon does. What a lovely little place. I kind of like the scribblings you made on the photographs. Gives it a special feel.
Thanks for sharing your lunch with us!
Posted by: catherine lucas (photocatseyes) | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 06:34 AM
That looks way better than the bowl of wheat chex, wheaties, and cheerios all mixed together,with sliced bananas and sugar and sprinkled with a spoon of granola for that little extra umph that I had for breakfast. I am sending you a good character to draw for sketch war wednesday!
Posted by: sister! | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 08:13 AM
Oh, how I wish I could hang out with you for a day or two. What fun we'd have! xo
Posted by: Connie Rose | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 09:28 AM
Add this to the long list of why I need to go to LA soon. I'm trying to behave, but LA and San Diego are always pulling on my heart. How did you draw on your photos? I love the way they look!
Posted by: Laura b | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 11:29 AM
hi laura - i used sketchbook pro on my ipad. super duper fun!
Posted by: Mary Ann Moss | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 11:47 AM
There are so many things I miss about the LA area, and we have been gone for 20 years. Would love to be there. But you need to go to Manuals "El Tepiac" (spelling?) in LA before it is no more, and tell me all about it...
Posted by: June Galaz | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Yum! Crack bacon! I'm trying to pare down my derriere so bacon isn't on the authorized foods list but that sure does sound like it might be worth it anyway!
Posted by: Jenny | Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 06:18 AM
sketch war wednesday!!! sisters, i wanna play toooooooooo... xoxox
Posted by: francesca di leo | Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Aren't we lucky to be walking in the sunshine? Beach walks with their sound track of waves hurrying in and whispering back out are something I require often.
Posted by: Sharron | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM