Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Animal Farm
Susan and I made good on plans to participate in today’s annual Blessing of the Animals down at Olvera Street. So we decorated Buster the tortoise with flowers and had a blast! But instead of wasting keystrokes telling you how much fun it was, I’ll just point you to the photo set I created over [...]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Three Avocados, A Baby Banana And A Broken Chair
This morning’s rains forced a shortening of the usually walk I take with the dog. Instead of a big loop around the neighborhood, we kept it to the neighboring block and included a detour down the alley Susan and I explored a couple weekends or so. The good news is that someone mowed and chopped [...]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Streetfiti and Lounge Lizards
Walking up Maltman today I found a new granddaddy (see image below) of my current curb-level fixation with concrete carvings, which I dubbed Streetfiti in my post a couple days ago over on Blogging.la. I’ve even gone and created a public Streetfiti Group over on Flickr to post my growing collection of snapshots like this [...]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Shadowplay
Sitting at my desk just a few moments ago I looked up to see what you see in the picture above: the banking of the morning sun’s rays off the wall of the apartment building across the street in through the library window to be projected onto the wall above my desk. Then, at that [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, tidbits by Will
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Of Books and Intvus
I just finished Dangerous Beauty, by Mark Ross. It is a compelling read that details his dreams and nightmares as a safari guide in Africa. Throughout the majority of the book Ross highlights events and encounters from some of the unique tours he has conducted in the game parks of Tanzania and Kenya, but [...]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Here’s Looking At You Kid
I haven’t written much about my daughter because there hasn’t been all that much to write about. After our remarkable reunion last summer and a couple subsequent Saturdays spent together, the last time I saw her is when her and a couple friends made a wonderful and surprise visit to the house around Christmas. Since [...]
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
That’s Cat
Instead of attempting to impart any words of wizdum, I leave you with Jiggy in the afternoon grass:
3 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Monday, April 10th, 2006
All I Want For My Birthday Is Telescope Peak
So we’re all set for a journey this summer that’s going to begin by flying up to Redding and renting a car. We’re making a point of first climbing up to the top of Castle Crags outside Dunsmuir (something we attempted but didn’t complete when we were up there for Thanksgiving in November 2004) and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in nature, outdoors by Will
Sunday, April 9th, 2006
On The Boardwalk
From our vantage point at Venice Beach’s Sidewalk Cafe for breakfast, I sat the camera on the rail and snapped this empty scene of the little plot on the Boardwalk where artist David Alexander English plies his stock and trade:
[bigger version here on Flickr]
Later on we walked up to the Santa Monica Pier to see [...]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Ashes & Snow & Two Pounds Low
This morning Susan and I are headed to the Ashes and Snow exhibit next to the Santa Monica Pier for Phase III of her birthday gifts. But before leaving and seeing as it’s Sunday and all I stepped on the scale and found another two pounds has evaporated, bringing me to 226 with 34 [...]
