And you all know how much I love cake...

This fantabulous photo taken by Ashlyn Reagan is of the three finalists for the Pasadena birthday cake developed by Le Cordon Bleu.  Pasadena, California is celebrating its 125th birthday, and it's throwing a doozy of a party at the Pasadena Museum of History on June 11.

I thought my followers would enjoy reading a trilogy of four stories I wrote for Examiner about the whole cake business--the flavors in contention, the design, the making of.  And like Douglas Adams, I will probably add a couple more before it's done.

• Pasadena’s birthday cake: Vote on your favorite flavor May 6
• The 125-year taste test: Pasadena Museum of History puts the cakes to a vote
• Stupendous Pasadena 125th birthday cake design unveiled,flavor announced
• What goes into a 300-pound cake? Creating the cake forPasadena’s 125th birthday

Enjoy!  And come to the party for a taste.

As the fourth in my continuing series of articles on where to go to eat when you're in town for the Rose Parade, I wrote this article on Examiner.com about Burger Continental.  It's a Pasadena icon, one of the first places we went to eat when we moved here in 1978.

I'm told they have karaoke on Monday nights, if that's your thing.