Christmas, Los Angeles style

Really, I do live in an absurd, if wonderful city ... this is down on the Venice canals, on a gloriously warm and sunny day.  Maybe it's not quite as incongruous as the time that I went to Hawai'i a few weeks before Christmas, which was the first occasion that I'd ever seen Christmas decorations and palm trees, but it's pushing it very close. It's probably a good job that this year's Christmas card is already done and printed, or this would be a very tempting image to have used ...