The Natural History Museum’s Spider Pavilion doesn’t open up for a few more days  so in the meantime if you’re into arachnids like I am why wait? Just come on over to our house and see this magnificent monster who’s set up housekeeping over the north side walkway. It was a few days ago when …
After a regular bombardment upon my few dear readers with all manner of sunflower posts these last couple months, things stopped rather abruptly more than a week ago in part because the prize of the patch finally fell victim to some ratzafratzin’ arboreal rodent. I closed the book a few days later on this year’s …
UPDATED (9.17): Thanks to the Natural History Museum’s Spider Pavilion webpage, I’ve learned this is not an orb weaver, but rather a jewel garden spider. The difference? Orb’s tend to sit smack in the middle of their webs, whereas jewel’s like to hide out in the foliage around them — and that’s exactly what this …
We were thrilled to be in the audience for the final performance of “Othello” last night at Griffith Park and had so been looking forward to the show, but unfortunately once it started we found that our position centered some 50 yards away from the stage was fatally detrimental to our enjoyment and comprehension given …
Wiping up the counter after doing the dishes yesterday morning, one could almost hear the cartoonish tire-screeching sound as I stopped the paper towel literal millimeters from this leggy leeeetle fella I saw parked there. In a world full of people who have 1,276 more important things to do than waste time over trespassing insects, …
It’s been an enjoyable couple weeks spying on the frontyard hummingbird nest through the porch spotting scope, watching as the chicks have grown exponentially thanks in full part to the momma bird’s tireless efforts. Then came this morning when I looked through the eyepiece and found the nest, which as of yesterday could barely hold …
On the first of this month I posted an itty bitty bit of video of the hummingbird and nest Susan found high up in the laurel tree overhanging our front yard. A couple days earlier I posted better ones over at LA Metblogs. In the days since we’ve been monitoring the mama and her eggs’ …