On Thursday night, our first at Lucia Lodge in the village of Lucia on the coast, Susan and I marveled not only at the full moon that had risen above the Santa Lucia Mountains at the exact time the sun set over the seas to the west, but also the fact that one of my …
This morning while doing my regular backyard waterings ‘n dogpoop scoops I found not only some early blooms on our neighbor’s San Pedro cactus, but in one of them a busy carpenter bee. I managed somehow without falling or without to unsteady a hand to cantilever myself across the the tortoise hutch with my cam …
This may seem weird but one of the things I envy the most about the younger generations is their ability to instantaneously and thoroughly document their lives. I got my first Kodak Instamatic when I was 7 or so, but cameras back then took these weird cassettes of film that cost money to buy and …
That’s a still last night from the webcam, recently placed in the laundry room to point through a louvered window out at the patio table in the backyard in hopes of catching Bink having a nocturnal snack from the food bowl we’ve been leaving on it. Bink’s been living outside in protest since we had …
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Not quite a year ago whilst biking to work one morning I passed a patch of passion fruit flowers growing on a fence alongside the Ballona Creek Bikeway near Sepulveda Boulevard and among the many marvelous blossoms found a big and busy carpenter bee hard at work on one. As I go nowhere without a …
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One of the coolest (literally!) of our house’s bonuses is the view to the north it offers the day after one of these rare arctic storms blasts through. This one not only dumped two inches of rain on our roof, but dusted the ridgeline of the San Gabriels with snow as seen from our kitchen …
Had I arrived a couple minutes earlier instead of right now, I might’ve had a shot at the setting sun. But I didn’t take into account the sun drops that much sooner with each passing day.