I always make a point during a morning break in the action to go out into the backyard and check on the tortoise — just to make sure she’s her usual tortoise self. On this morning, passing the birdbath on my way to Buster’s hutch, I sighted a spider flailing a bit in the water, …
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Tony Pierce went to see Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live” concert last night and it brought back memories of Pink Floyd’s original “The Wall” tour. The show was sold out for a week in February 1980 at the Sports Arena. With no money to my name and a mother who was not a fan of …
It didn’t take long for one of our local Anna’s hummingbirds to find the feeder I set up on the front porch. Though there’s obviously no basis in fact, I’d like to think this is either the mother of the hummingbird chick I rescued last summer, or the fully grown chick itself (caught on cam …
The long-unofficial extension to the LA River Bikeway south of Fletcher Avenue hasn’t been opened officially for even a day and already that old pedestrian call for cyclists to respect pedestrians has been brought up by the Corralitas Red Car Property blog: Cyclists complain about cars whizzing past them too closely at high speeds on …
So with the addition of a negative scanner, I’ve of course been going through sheets of negatives from back in the prehistoric days shooting black and white film — most of which were related to class assignments from the early ’90s. Pulling a sheet out of the batch on my desk I found what looks …
Back in October I discovered that mesmerizing long-lost film clip on YouTube, filmed from a streetcar in San Francisco. Purported to have been filmed just days before the 1906 earthquake and saved because it was reportedly shipped out of town before the disaster, there’s debate about that owing not only to the sheer coincidence but …
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These images are from 1992 — ’93 at the latest — of my darling daughter Katie enjoying an orange at her grandma’s house in Sherman Oaks on a rainy day. A brief and marvelous moment in time, newly rediscovered thanks to the negative scanner I’ve long wanted and just got. This was the first random …