Here Comes The Sun

I knew it, sunflower! I knew one of these days the truth would come out and expose yer true colors. Inside, yer aaaaall… yella!! (click to go big)

Let It Bee

Well, so far so good, I accomplished a buncha things on my Do List yesterday, the nicest of which was hiking up to the top of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook with Susan and enjoying the spectacular views, be it wall-to-wall wide angled or a bit more up-close as in of this busy bee docking …

The Beetle & The Blossom

Just me, a magnolia blossom and a hungry green June beetle on a Sunday morning in Silver Lake with me perched somewhat precariously atop our garage to get the shots and quick video that make up this Flickr photoset.

There’s A Sunflower In There Somewhere

The largest of our batch of sunflowers is almost four feet tall and it looks like there might be the makings of a wee flower emerging. Or it could just be more leaves (click for Flickr page).

Cactus Catch-up

Back in March I posted about a remarkable cactus pad draped over the north fence that while disconnected from the mother plant still somehow managed to nurture five smaller pads that were thriving forth from it, even though the pad itself was dying. Then in April I did an update about how so moved I …

Sunflower Power

Wanted to give a visual update on the sunflowers we planted May 3 (click for the bigger picture). The 10 I first posted about here are in the foreground — pretty much peat-pot-and-all transplanted into the ground in the same order as they were in that photo. The rest behind were planted in a row …