This morning while stopped on Redondo Boulevard between Adams and Jefferson trying to entice an entirely uninterested stray chihuahua to me for some kibble, I looked over and behind the fence of the house I was in front of I found this bunny, at right, just hanging out and grooming its coat while I tried …
With the pitch darkness of the Death Valley Junction Saturday night pushed back only slightly by our lakeside campfire, I adjourned from both its warmth and Susan for the camper to shed the sweats I was wearing and put on some clothes more presentable for dinner at the Amargosa Cafe followed by a film presentation …
I dropped the camper van rental off at its Hawthorne home yesterday morning, settled the bill and boarded my bike for the nine miles or so from Rosecrans and Crenshaw to work in Westchester. Eight-tenths of a mile later, making the turn to go north on Prairie up to Manchester came the telltale sound of …
Let me introduce you to this adorable little chiropteran fella: (You’ll wanna click it for the bigger picture) Don’t fret. It’s sleeping, not dead. It may look like it’s flat on the ground, but its clinging vertically to a beam under an eave next to the Amargosa Opera House. Susan and I found two others …
(You’ll wanna click it for the bigger picture) Directions: After enjoying turkey and all the fixin’s, and then lighting a campfire, mount a camera on a tripod at Eureka Dunes Thanksgiving Day evening with a waxing gibbous moon behind you. Next point the camera out into the pitch darkness in the general ballpark direction of …
Well, we’re home safe from our oddball Thanksgiving weekend in Death Valley. There were moments of disappointment, such as when on a cold and windy and damp Saturday morning from Ubehebe Crater looking at the snow-dumping serious storm parked over the road to Racetrack Playa that I made the right but tough decision to delay …
In August I wrote about our off-the-wall plans for what may very well be the oddest, bestest most awesome Thanksgiving of our lives next week. It involves packing up a rented SUV and leaving Los Angeles Wednesday night, driving straight out to Death Valley’s Eureka Dunes, spending Turkey Day and night there, then driving to …