In my webcammings of late I’ve been pointing the camera through a window out into the side garden at a makeshift birdbath that I set up awhile ago during some particularly nasty hot and dry spell. To my consterned surprise the effort went entirely ignored for a few weeks by what turned out to be …
Chalk this one up as a weather anomaly. Or a poltergeist. At some point over the weekend during the post-rain winds that blew in and out Saturday, an old frond-y appendage from the smaller of our two backyard palms detatched its mooring to fall the 20-some feet to earthas others of its kind have done …
I reconnected one of the webcams and pointed at the birdbath outside since it’s finally been getting some visits from the locals. Obviously it’s likely to be more miss than hit as to whether you’ll see a bird in the static images that are served up, so I also archived all the pix captured into …
Agh, us faultless “entitled” humans. Practically every day I’m shown another example of how we think we do own the planet. This time it was on a rather small scale via an alert to residents of the next monthly Silver Lake Improvement Association gathering later this week. As highlighted above, one of the items to …
No camera with me at the time and anyway my angle and the steely cast to the morning wouldn’t have resulted in good imagery even if I’d been equipped. But a few moments ago while I was putting the trash cans out for pick-up I heard the telltale “laugh” of a Cooper’s hawk above me …
As part of Blogging.la’s “The $20 Project,” which began yesterday and in which various contributors see how far a Jackson can be stretched, I opted to get on my bike and the Gold Line Sunday and get on out to the L.A. County Arboretum in Arcadia. The resulting post is scheduled to go live about …
For want of a substantive post while I’m still here in Orlando, all I have for you is some window-dwelling examples of the area’s entomology, specifically a wasp and a jumping spider (my favorite of all spiders!) that put it on dah glass outside my hotel room 11 stories off the deck for awhile yesterday …