The Coffee Gallery. Life in a funky little coffee shop in Altadena, California

The Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River flows some 52 miles through Los Angeles County, California. It starts in west end of the San Fernando Valley at the union of Bell Creek and Calabasas creek and empties into the Pacific ocean at the port of Long Beach. Many Angelenos are unaware that a river flows through the urban sprawl of Los Angeles. And for many more their image of the river is something that they've only seen in any number of films or television programs. The LA River has its own personality, its own quirks. The LA River illustrates the struggle of Man vs Nature...but in such a way that it almost seems a joke. Here we have a river by its nature and its history has defined and created Los Angeles, a city that is also created by man. A fence that seems to be built to keep plants away from the water source, a tree that beckons to the birds that prefer the order of power lines, plants that somehow force their way through the concrete channels of the river, the river that attempts to cleanse itself of the tons of garbage that is dumped into it by man...

Singer and songwriter Tom McBride wrote the songs that evenutually became Morning in Glen Burnie, a modern album steeped in an old-school blend of Americana, blues, soul, pop and rock.