Dueling Coyotes

So I did a 67-mile ride this morning that sent me from Silver Lake through downtown across the L.A. River and east across Whittier Boulevard to the San Gabriel River, then downstream to where it empties into the bay. Then I came up through Long Beach along the Shoreline Bikeway to the Los Angeles River …

Bee Movie

Yeah, yeah… again with the sunflowers. Susan posted a couple awesome shots of one the first bees to dive into our sunflowers when she got home yesterday. This morning before leaving for work I found one digging in and couldn’t get an in-focus macro image of the critter despite repeated attempts. So I flipped the …

Behold: SunflowerCam

Instead of a wide shot showing a whole lotta nuthin’ going on outside, this morning I zoomed across the backyard to two of the first-blooming sunflowers: The latest image in a steady progression of pretty much the same dang thing can be viewed here on the Webcam page.

When A Battery Dies

We’ve owned a handheld, rechargeable so-called “one-million candlepower” spotlight for going on four/five years now. I bought it at Pep Boys for $9.99. We’ve used it primarily to illuminate the backyard for wild critters prior to letting the dogs out for their nighttime pee. No surprise: in the past few months the battery’s been on …