Ranger On Patrol

Yesterday after breakfast (and before the day’s NFL Conference Championship games yielded the two teams I least wanted to see in the Super Bowl; but still: Go Giants, beat that Brady Bunch!), Susan and I went for a morning hike with Ranger in Bronson Canyon Park, a place I’ve been visiting since I was 12 …

Just So You’re Up To Speed

I haven’t made much noise here or anywhere because up to this point it’s primarily been percolating in my brain, but I’ve begun more earnest planning of my second-annual March March  (last year’s can be read about here) for either the first or second Saturday of that month, and I’m starting to get pretty excited …

SXSE & NXNE

Nah, that headline ain’t some sorta code. Just the general compass points I was facing when I snapped the following images in the vicinity of Dante’s View while on our way up to the top of Mt. Hollywood Saturday morning. What I’m taken most with is the fact that though the two shots were taken …

Now That — I Say, That — Is What I Call Counter-Intelligent

Susan and I made good on vague plans suggested a couple weeks ago to forego our usual Saturday-morning porch time and get ourselves over to Griffith Park for a near-sunrise hike from the Observatory up to the top of Mt. Hollywood. It was my first time on pretty much any of GP’s trails since the …