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Tujunga’s New Year’s Illumination Goes Off Without A Hitch

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LOCAL CALENDAR DEPT.

Janus’s double-holiday is traditionally marked around here by the same radiant sunshine you remember from the Rose Parades of your youth: warm and dazzling. This year was no exception. Only Pasadena (which is just over those mountains) had to cancel its Parade. After much nervous whispering among the cottonwoods, it was agreed Tujunga’s annual psychedelic event would go forward as planned this year, with the theme, Children: Our Light Of The Future.

Sumacs, oaks and mahoganies crowd the grandstand overlooking the parade route. Families, old bracken to new saplings, and local lodges can be found at the same favorite spot year after year. Dry slopes, sure; but there’s water in the creek!



Due to coronavirus restrictions, similar to New York’s measures imposed around the Dropping of the Ball (which for some reason also went off) there was no throng of drunken, maskless millennials; a single spectator was chosen at random to bear witness to the annual color and light event. (The View has inside connections with the particular creek involved; strings were pulled — including ham-strings, coming over those rocks.) It was my treat to be chosen to be there, supporting Big Tujunga’s display on the clearest, most beautiful afternoon we’ve seen all year. It is your treat to imagine taking off your mask and breathing all this fresh cool air for a few minutes. Here for instance, where Delta Canyon spreads its great fan just as the Creek meets the rocky anticlines (above) and turns a graceful arabesque. The cottonwoods, sycamores and ashes put on a procession of golden razzle-dazzle that did Janus, California, and the Children of Our Future, proud. Happy New Year from the View!