I can’t recall when might the last time someone in Southern California was struck and killed by lightning, but in the midst of yesterday’s freak strom, just such a freak tragedy happened to a 40-year-old woman who was reportedly just walking along a residential street. Next thing she’s dead, “with most of her clothes blown …
Check out Dan Turner, L.A. River Hater, in the L.A. Times. The dude goes for a five-mile bike ride along the path from Griffith Park to Fletcher and comes back like some definitive expert with things like this to say: “…I’d like to write some Whitmanesque stanzas about the atomic oneness of nature, but the …
Yesterday I finished up all my bike riding in May with what I call my “10K Loop” route, a 6.2-mile circle that goes up Sunset Boulevard to Griffith Park Drive to Hyperion up and over the Viaduct to the L.A. River to Fletcher Avenue to Glendale Boulevard to Silver Lake Boulevard to Parkman Avenue to …
Since the stair guy’s piled up his tools and stuff in such a way as to block the cam’s view of the patio table (and thus any late-night Bink sightings, yesterday I oriented it west for a shot down the south side of the house. Not because anything special goes on, but because at least …
What you’re looking at is the beginnings of nine out of ten sunflower seeds I planted a week ago Sunday. They are actually two varieties. The five in the back are children of a magnificent sunflower grown last year by my friend Jo up near Vacaville who sent me some seeds from it. The seedlings …
Outside this morning while watering our side garden parched by yesterday’s surprise heatrush, I glanced up at the location of the dove-destroyed sparrow nest I wrote about yesterday, and off to the side I found what I first thought was perhaps a large remnant of that nest, wedged against the waterheater vent pipe that goes …
We have a pair of house sparrows (or maybe it’s different pairs) who just can’t get a break. A couple springs ago, they made what seemed like a good decision to set up their nest in one of the paper lanterns in our backyard (built-in heat source at night, relative security from predators) only to …