I was pretty much gut-punched by the sudden and heartbreaking destruction by jays of an earlier backyard hummingbird nest and its two chicks that I’d been monitoring. It went from awesome to all gone in the blink of an eye and no matter how many times I’m shown how brutal nature can be, it never …
As mentioned in my previous post, there were two encounters during yesterday’s ride I deem worthy to share and this second one involved a textbook self-entitled red-running cyclist. What makes this blatant demonstration of jerktastically sociopathic tendencies so remarkable is the street he crossed illegally. This wasn’t Clinton and Larchmont or Virgil and 4th or …
When I was blessed/cursed with the opportunity to work from home beginning in May 2010, I lost three of my eight regular readers who tuned in to my bloggings mostly because I always strove to relate the various failed relationships I had with my fellow road users whilst bike commuting 30-plus miles roundtrip 200-plus times …
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This is the odd perspective you get from my Silver Lake backyard when you jam an old low-res camera into the eye-piece of a 20X spotting scope (at right), duct tape them both together and point the contraption down at Sunset Boulevard and capture at a frame a second the river of humanity that surges …
February 15 was the last date of measurable rainfall. January 23, before that. This once-a-month stuff is waaayheyhey below normal, but at least last night/today’s deluge brought down a full two inches according to the backyard precipitometer. Them meteorologicalists say there should be some more on the way tonight and tomorrow, but as of this …
Not counting my first 16/17 years when I didn’t have any reason to know any better, since then as a sports fan I’ve been taught this lesson too many times: Your heroes are expendable. I learned it first and hardest when first baseman Steve Garvey was allowed to go to San Diego at the end …
Not too long ago, Susan, Ranger and I did a hike up the Beaudry fireroad in the Verdugo Mountains, and while Ranger came away from the excursion with a tick next to her eye, I came away parasite-free and with a random acorn from the trail that I picked up with the intent to plant. …