Los Feliz to Griffith Park

Amazingly, we can see two urban parks from our new home (at about the location marked by the black "V" in the center of the photo).

This photo shows both parks. I was standing in the relatively small Barnsdall Park, on the hill surrounding a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home. The steep north slope is planted as an extensive grove of olives; the site was known as "Olive Hill" when Aline Barnsdall purchased it in 1919 to develop a home and artist community. These trees don't seem that old, so they were likely replanted.

To the north is Griffith Park, the largest municipal park in the US. Its slopes are covered in some native chapparal, but apparently invasive plants have made major inroads into the mountainous urban park. In this image, you can see the Hollywood sign as well as the Griffith Park Observatory.