Morning Snap: Trees Sky Venus Moon

A ridiculously hyper-stylized iPhone image snapped during our walk with Ranger this dawn, captured from LaFayette Park Place looking northeast, with the moon and Venus even closer than yesterday morning.

Morning Snap: 5:23 a.m.

I’m a chronic early riser. For the year since the upstairs renovation was completed this wall of what we know call the landing room (our former bedroom) is what I would find coming down our new stairs — or rather a fully darkened version of it. But last week after suggesting to Susan we find …

Morning Snap: Ballona Creekside

The biggest joy I get from wearing my videocam sunglasses isn’t the capture of footage demonstrating bad road behavior. Rather it’s the mundane scenes they record in passing, moments otherwise forgotten that instead I get to faux up and celebrate. Oooooooooo! Art Project! Taking a page from my friend Stephen’s book when he posted lakeside …

Morning Snaps: Yard Flora

These five cactus pads were rescued as tiny sprouts a from a single dying pad (its remains visible on the right side of the pot) that had disconnected from the main plant. I’m particularly fond of the  exulting “arms” the pad in the middle has grown. After Saturday’s rains, this tiny forest of mushrooms sprang …