The backstory is when the tenants who rented the house next door to us moved, they left this giant, rather elaborately fabricated and constructed heart behind. After the new owners bought the house a couple years ago at some point I mentioned how much Susan and I liked the thing. So he asked me if …
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As seen previously, it’s one thing to put on a santa suit, augmented with several strings of battery powered lights, and go bike-riding with several hundred fellow All-City Toy Ridazz — a fair percentage of whom are also wearing similarly festive outfits. It’s another thing entirely to return home from Boyle Heights through skid row …
I love ya, but you’re confusing the callalilies:
After a deeeeelectable breakfast at The Village Idiot this morning, Susan and I ventured over to the DeLancy Street Christmas Tree Lot on Wilshire in Hancock Park and picked ourselves up a noble fir seen fully dressed above.
Pedaling up from Silver Lake with my friend Steve, to be part of the contingent of All-City Toy Ridazz coming from Highland Park, we were joined there by a group from Pasadena before proceeding first to the new public space at Confluence Park near the LA River to await the arrival of cyclists coming from …
At first entirely wary and hesitant of the feeder recently installed on the porch, this hummingbird (best guess is it’s a rufous hummingbird) eventually came back (as you’ll see in the latter half of this video) for a meal. PS. It’s much more enjoyable to break out of these meager dimensions and watch the thing …
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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