yesterday was my friend kayla’s very last of a long string of days in la so we spent it, with friends, at venice beach pretending it was beachy out.

when we got there it was not so much beachy and more so like this:

and required wearing not so beachy clothes, like jeans and sweaters.

when you’re at the beach and you can’t do beachy things, you end up instead sitting/standing around and playing with bow ties…

or with my camera (this is kayla’s self portrait of herself in my lens):

and with the locals (this one was very interested in our belongings. very, very interested.):

but eventually we waited it out long enough for the clouds to dissipate, and the sun to emerge.
out came sunscreen and finally bathing suits.