So, while I was up on the roof last night getting this shot to the west of the Moon, Saturn, Mars and Venus all gathered together in the western sky, before I came down I also pointed the camera to the northwest and got this shot of that view (click it for the bigger picture):
For my timelapse observation of today’s sunflower, instead of the backyard, I chose one of the recently opened ones at the front of the house, a tall and healthy and large specimen not in Coyote Corner proper, but just outside the boundary to the right of what you can see on the Sunflower Webcam I …
Here’s two hours in the afternoon of one of my Great Sunflower Project sunflowers, timelapsed down to eight minutes. In addition to all the bees that visit it as it bops around in the breeze, at one point (about 1:35 in) this bloom gets the attention of a spotless ladybug, and later (about 6:52 in) …
We bought a new froguarium for our froggies last weekend, because after I cleaned it on Saturday it sprung a leak — a slow one, but a leak nonetheless. So we went to a pet shop on Hillhurst in Los Feliz Village and got a new one… only to find it was a muzzafuzzin’ leaker, …
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been focused on the biggest blooms of my bunch of backyard sunflowers, but all the while I’ve kept an admiring eye on the runt of the litter, who as nothing more than a sprout got ravaged by some critter that tore off its starter leaves, leaving little more than …
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During a neighborhood stroll some years back Susan and I chanced upon a pile of discards that included an old backgammon case that we brought home whose well-worn board told of countless games played upon it. Since it has sat pieceless atop the piano as a place to stand a vase or put a book. …
Well, it finally happened. After two months and a fair amount of nurturing, cajoling (and head shaking for planting so many sunflowers in such a generally sunless spot of the front yard, Coyote Corner is proud to present its first blossom of the bunch, as shown half-opened as of this morning in a capture from …