Jean Hooper, 45, hula-hoops on Venice Beach in Los Angeles on Wednesday. While winter blasts the rest of the nation, temperatures have been in the 80s in Southern California. “This is our winter,” she says. “That’s why I’m doing my happy hula dance.” (AP Photo/David Zentz)
While in much of the country the weather was turning those that dared go out of doors into popsicles we in Southern California were fortunate enough to have a heat wave. Here are a couple I shot on Wednesday. The hula-hooper was one of several shot for the AP, and the other just for myself.