Morning Snap: Trees Sky Venus Moon
A ridiculously hyper-stylized iPhone image snapped during our walk with Ranger this dawn, captured from LaFayette Park Place looking northeast, with the moon and Venus even closer than yesterday morning.
Morning Snap: Lousy Pic Of A Lovely Row
Out in the backyard this morning to let Ranger out for a pee, I found Venus, the Moon and Jupiter aligned across the northeastern skies and fading into the dawn’s early light. Having skeptically snapped it with my iPhone I was later surprised to find all three visible (Jupiter, barely) in the image, annotated for …
Morning Snap: Beauty & The Beast
(click it for the bigger picture) The high concentration of rainfall in December followed by a condensed cold snap that gave way to the present warm-up conspired to trigger a lot of the backyard foliage — including our callalily –Â into blooming early, perhaps sensing winter had come and gone and spring was here. I …
Morning Snap: Breakfast
I would be a lousy wildlife photographer. No patience. Fortunately in the case of catching hummingbirds at our front porch feeder, I didn’t need to have the level of inner peace that would typically be required by a professional. Still even standing at the camera for even a couple minutes taxes me — at least …
Morning Snap: 5:23 a.m.
I’m a chronic early riser. For the year since the upstairs renovation was completed this wall of what we know call the landing room (our former bedroom) is what I would find coming down our new stairs — or rather a fully darkened version of it. But last week after suggesting to Susan we find …
Morning Snap: Ballona Creekside
The biggest joy I get from wearing my videocam sunglasses isn’t the capture of footage demonstrating bad road behavior. Rather it’s the mundane scenes they record in passing, moments otherwise forgotten that instead I get to faux up and celebrate. Oooooooooo! Art Project! Taking a page from my friend Stephen’s book when he posted lakeside …
Morning Snaps: Yard Flora
These five cactus pads were rescued as tiny sprouts a from a single dying pad (its remains visible on the right side of the pot) that had disconnected from the main plant. I’m particularly fond of the exulting “arms” the pad in the middle has grown. After Saturday’s rains, this tiny forest of mushrooms sprang …