A few days ago, my wife and I went for a walk on the Venice Canals, which is a Los Angeles neighborhood next to Venice Beach. You can tell that this must have once been a sleepy beach town, with cute little bungalows lining a few acres of crisscrossing canals. But over time, they've mostly been bought up and replaced with mansions. And while the conspicuous wealth of LA can be pretty depressing, this neighborhood was quite beautiful, as everyone clearly spent a lot of time (or money) on landscaping. So, we had a really enjoyable stroll through the canals, with my wife indulging my desire to photograph every last tree, flower, and plant.

But we began noticing these very political looking lawn signs. No dummies, we were both very suspicious of their message to "Stop the Monster." And we were right. The "monster" these people wanted to stop was a very modest public housing development.

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