At passing glance, what you’re looking at below might seem just a blobtacular mass of leaf litter caught up in a tree’s branches, but in reality it’s a marvel of engineering and camouflage; a pendulous dangling nest (its entrance at the upper right), constructed tirelessly by a tiny little bird called the bushtit — I …
What an incredible journey. We crammed so much into two nights and three days I don’t even know where to begin and so I won’t other than to say There Will Be Pictures and that it was a supreme joy for Susan and me to be able to show off one of our favorite place …
8Ball posed for me at LACMA’s Urban Lights exhibit on the way home from work one night this week.
The winter storms worked wonders for the channelized waterway known as Ballona Creek, leaving its banks cleaner and its wet stuff clearer than I’ve ever seen it, such as here at the water’s edge near the pedestrian/bike bridge that spans it between Overland and Sepulveda in Culver City. But unless the rains that are forecast …
Just a highly fauxtified still from my sunglasses videocam, supplemented with a bit of the incongruous intrigue thanks to the planted weapon from which the jogger (suspect?) seems to be running.
It’s just a fact of biking on the streets and I’m long used to getting crossed at intersections by all manner of civilian vehicles who roll through my right of way pretty regularly — be it aggressively intentional or distractedly unaware. This morning’s “meetcha in the middle” partner was a first. Good morning, officers!
(click for the bigger picture) Just felt like sharing this first fleur of the season from our front yard. I call them kaleidoscopes lilies irises (thanks Jac!), because I don’t know better and because I get drawn in by their mesmerizing beauty and lost in their hypnotic symmetry. But maybe someone out there for more …