click it for the bigger picture Over the last three days on lunch breaks and several times when my computer’s crashed and it was either A) Beat my head against the desk, or B) Walk away, I’ve performed that rite of fall and commenced spookitating the frontyard like the whacked-out Halloween-loving manboy I am. There …
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I may have more to say later about yesterday’s marvelous and monumental CicLAvia (or I may not) but in the meantime, here’s a timelapse I made of the 7.5-mile route from Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights coming back to Bicycle Square at the intersection of Heliotrope and Melrose in East Hollywood.
Last week while pedaling on the LA River Bikeway a bird in the water caught my eye that I stopped and snapped (click the image for the bigger picture): Though my first thought was “black-crowned night heron,” it was substantially larger than any I’d seen, plus it didn’t have the typical starkly contrasting plummage much …
Rain? Really? Yes. GREAT.  But there are others out in it more perturbed than me — such as this squirrel frozen in the following position against the drizzle in the tree outside the study window using its tail as something of an umbrella and thereby adopting a truly mohican-esque profile: The image can be doublized …
Susan and I were enjoying our morning coffee on the front porch when Ranger went a little yippy and immediately after that I spotted a golden-brown chow loose and crossing from our side of the street to the other. You know me: I’m helpless to ignore a lost dog. Â So I grabbed a leash and …
Didn’t catch the launch of the Atlas 5 rocket out of  Vandenberg AFB last night, but I managed to capture Pepper’s pretty much daily post-breakfast routine in which after finishing eating he crosses from his bowl onto the stovetop and then jumps the gaping 3-foot maw between it and the kitchen island.
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 …