An L.A. Times article today on the excellent success of the island fox captive breeding program on Santa Rosa Island reminded me that in a few days it will be the fourth anniversary of my trip to Santa Rosa’s neighbor Santa Cruz Island with a team of fellow Los Angeles Zoo docents. Invited by The …
In the World According To Me there are few things more fortuitous than that of a ladybug lighting upon you. Long has it been since I was last landed on by one of these little lovelies. Yesterday morning, I found this one on my forearm as I biked south on Mesmer between Jefferson and Centinela. …
I had just finished doing the dishes yesterday when I found a leggy little insect about an inch long crawling along the sink. My guess was that it hitched a ride on me when I was doing yardwork earlier that morning so I tried to coax it onto a piece of paper to return it …
Watering the plants in the side yard, I tried to dislodge what I thought to be an abandoned cobweb spun between the hose and the house by spritzing it only to discover it was most certainly still occupied by a wet western widow who barged out of her hiding place to see what the hell …
Upon finally being able to review the vid this morning, I found that the computer’s crash didn’t come at midnight. Instead it kept on storing images in sequence every 15 seconds until shortly before 4 a.m. Fortunately the 300mb file was condensable too a far more YouTube friendly 38 megs. Enjoy:
Saturday morning I found one of the neighboring yard’s cactus flowers pretty well inundated with bees, and posted about it here with video links on L.A. Metblogs. Sure enough by Saturday night all but one of the remaining cactus blooms opened up, none of which were ideally situated to capture the nocturnal blossoms in all …