Tiny Tot With His Eyes All Aglow
With great grandma Casey and mom Katie looking on, my grandson Aiden shows himself to be very pleased with his Lightning McQueen car.
Available Light
I was going to try to write some holiday-appropriate words to accompany this animated image of our Christmas tree. But it’s 3:20 on Christmas Eve’s eve morning as I write this and I’ve been up since 2:41 and I’m just not feeling very jolly. I was brought from my sleep because our dog Shadow uncharacteristically …
The World According To Patches
Pretty much her standard operating position when she relaxes on my her desk. I call it the Reclining Mantis.
Buds
Pepper and Susan and I met Jigsaw on Super Bowl Sunday of 2004. Pepper, (left) was four years old, had been with me since August of 2001 and reigned as king of the one-bedroom apartment I lived in when I first moved to Silver Lake. Jiggy was about eight weeks of age when I went …
Tres Gatos En La Cama
All Together Now
One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite musicals, “Man of La Mancha,” goes like this: “Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher.” Well in the case of the pticher pictured below, it wasn’t a stone, but rather the backyard …
Timelapse: Puzzle Pot
Wednesday night’s extreeeeeeeme Santa Anas windstorm was devastating to many communities throughout Southern California. Our house and those of our neighbors got off lucky. With the exception of a bunch of fallen palm fronds, one of the few things that broke in the backyard was a sentimentally valued ladybug pot that had already broken once …