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Ashes and Rebirth: Grief, Loss and Recovery from 2025 Eaton Fire

12 Jun 2025

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

16 Nov 2024

It's November and fall in the air. Halloween has come and gone, and it was another fun day and early evening. We smiled as we saw the usual suspects as they did their treat and treating here in scenic Altadena. The look for Halloween 2024 seemed to be quite Marvelous. Marvelous like in...
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September-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

16 Sep 2024

It's July and it's hot. I guess you could say that it's a typical July in Southern California. It's been a hot month since back in the day when we opened our doors. It was 1882. America and California were growing by leaps and bounds and so was Altadena and Pasadena. Citrus and agriculture were becoming more and more of our Altadena...
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July-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

6 Aug 2024

It's July and it's hot. I guess you could say that it's a typical July in Southern California. It's been a hot month since back in the day when we opened our doors. It was 1882. America and California were growing by leaps and bounds and so was Altadena and Pasadena. Citrus and agriculture were becoming more and more of our Altadena...
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June-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

13 Jun 2024

It’s June and as you enter our Fair Oaks gate, our beautiful flowers welcome you. All the colors of the rainbow seem to have been placed by an artist with flowers as his palate. That artist is Mountain View’s Sammy and he does his creative plantings long before the sun comes up....
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April-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

22 Apr 2024

Genesis. It all began for us here at Mountain View in 1882. Property in Pasadena changed hands and those traditional backyard graves were gently moved to their new place of rest here on Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena....
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March-2024 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

18 Mar 2024

It's March. February came and went and so did 2024;s Valentine's Day and that awesome Black History parade down Fair Oaks Avenue. It was a very special month with many Altadena...
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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...
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December-2023 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

20 Dec 2023

The magic month of December has arrived. Fall is still upon us with her beautiful colors and now those magic words: Christmas. Hanukkah. Presents. More presents....
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November-2023 Looking out the window here at Mountain View once again

20 Nov 2023

October has come and gone. The best day in October is of course, Halloween. And Halloween means kids and fun and candy and of course Trick-or-Treating. Every October 31st you can hear those little steps marching up and down Fair Oaks Avenue in search of Halloween...
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