The inside of our garage door has been home to a brown widow spider and her various egg sacs for at least a year now. Most of the time when she senses movement she dives for her hiding place behind the door’s strut and hunkers down where she can barely be seen. But today as …
My timelapsing cam didn’t capture if the bee actually landed on the first sunflower to bloom, only this shot (click it for the bigger picture) of it approaching. In the entire three-hour span spent taking pictures every two seconds, this is the only frame wherein a bee came calling. Not a great start to this …
Well we finally have bloomage: Of the eight sunflower seeds planted in the two boxes hung off the southside stairs in June, six have grown, with the first having started its reveal yesterday (above how it looks this morning; click it for the bigger picture). Now the question is if it can avoid decapitation by …
On a leaf of one of the six sunflowers growing outside the southside door of the house, I found this pattern. Are/were these eggs (or what’s left of them) perhaps or just the trail of some lopsided unknown bug (click it for the bigger picture). If neither than I’m going with a crop circle from …
The historic Paddle The Los Angeles River pilot program begins next weekend (continuing Saturdays and Sundays through September 25) in which the public will be legally allowed to kayak/canoe in the Los Angeles River for the first time in I don’t even know how long… decades, at least. Now, it’s not something as easy as …
On this edition of “Will Rides The River Bed — Again!” this time I’m joined by my friend Andrew and together we did something that I think is pretty unique in the annals of Los Angeles cycling, we bridged the long (roughly 8-mile, as the water flows) gap from the southern end of the Los …
The first time was in 2006 in Spokane, Washington. The second time was a few days later in Troy, Montana. The third time was this morning while biking the East Bank of the Los Angeles River. I managed to point-and-shoot my point-and-shoot at it as it headed upstream (click it for a not very much …