Happy Anniversary, Bay-Bee!
Can’t believe it’s been five years already. That was fast! Here’s to the next five and the adventures that await! I love you SO much! Photo taken June 12, 2005, by my friend and excellent photographer, Rachel Rausch.
Nest Tending
Yesterday I set up the digicam on a tripod a few feet away from the hummingbird sitting on two eggs in the backyard and got this little timelapse of her doing some nest reinforcement in the afternoon breeze. It’s roughly 90 seconds of real-time condensed into 11: The nest itself is the size of a …
Oh Say Can You See…
It’s Aliiiiiiiive!
Yeah, I know… Coyote Corner doesn’t looks much different than it did in the webcam still captured the afternoon after planting 100 sunflower seeds in it five days ago, but trust me, we’ve got a nice bunch of sprouts rising. There’s more than 30 coming up in the patch itself, and a few more I …
‘Nother Nest
On the first of this month I posted an itty bitty bit of video of the hummingbird and nest Susan found high up in the laurel tree overhanging our front yard. A couple days earlier I posted better ones over at LA Metblogs. In the days since we’ve been monitoring the mama and her eggs’ …
My Sunflower Timelapse Has Begun
So I tilled some earth yesterday. I love saying that: “tilled some earth.” Show of hands, when was the last time any of you city slickers boasted of that activity, huh? [crickets] Anyway, this city slicker got busy yesterday with the electric tiller on the corner patch of ground in the front yard (pictured above) …
Look! On the sidewalk!! It’s Arrow Man!
No, this is not me trying out a costume for an upcoming group bike ride. This is me during my fourth-annual participation in the L.A. River Ride route marking the morning of June 5, south of Olympic Boulevard on Grande Vista in Boyle Heights. Photographed by my friend and fellow veteran route marker, Steve aka …