Morning Moonie
 Short uncropped series I made of the setting over the Santa Monicas is here on Flickr.
The Pruning
Well we thought the time had come, but it turns out after a re-read of the instructions we were actually way overdue in taking the next step with the most advanced of the four avocado seedlings we’d been nurturing in the kitchen windowsill since last month. click to doublify Whereas we thought we were supposed …
The Results Are In
First the good news: I’m reeeeeeally pleased with how todays clouds timelapse came out. And that means only more good news: that my attempt to capture the rich cumulo-nimbus display from our Silver Lake rooftop melted neither the computer nor the camera — amazingly, because it was mighty dang hot up there. But I won’t …
…Not A Cloud Up In The Sky, Stormy Weather…
Hey there. It’s your friendly neighborhood mad scientist/engineer/documentationalist/timelapsologist again, coming to you live from the tippity top of roof of our Silver Lake abode, where I got the bug to install my laptop and digicam in an attempt to capture what hopefully will be the building of another day’s “thunderhat” above and beyond the Verdugo …
Avocado Update
I’m not sure if I’ll make it a habit of chronicling our avocado tree seedling’s progress, but here it is going strong five days after the previous photo: The informational page on cultivating avocado seeds that I’d been accessing for guidance gets a little vague around this point: “When the roots are substantial and the …
Thunderhats
When I was a kid and first heard the term “thunderheads” — perhaps from inimitable Eyewitness News weatherman Dr. George Fishbeck — I mistook it for “thunderhats,” and that’s what I called the meteorological phenomena for many of my formative years and then some. My belligerent and impeccable logic when I was inevitably corrected was …
We Have Liftoff!
Checking in on our quartet of avocado pits this morning, I found that the first one we placed in water August 4 is also the first one to launch a seedling skyward (click to doublify): Â