I have no patience with holiday lights. Especially the kind that are fully functioning when I take them down January 1 only to find them fouled up after 11.5 months of doing nothing but sitting in the basement. When I haul them out If they work, great! But if all or part of a string …
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One of our loveable dawgz is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
It’s always a treat to look out our north-facing windows after a storm such as the one earlier this week and see the distant San Gabriels dusted with snow. Not counting this past Thanksgiving weekend in Death Valley with its various blanketed mountain ranges, nor my trudge through the slush at the summit of the …
Here’s something you don’t see everyday in Big City LA: a peregrine falcon perched and feasting from its kill on the ledge of the office building across from mine in Westchester’s Howard Hughes Center, To get this artificially zoomed footage I put my cam’s lens up against an eyepiece of an 12×25 set of binoculars …
I knew what was going to happen the moment after the middle-aged cyclist pushed off eastbound from the curb into the La Cienega Boulevard crosswalk from the northwest corner of La Cienega and Venice Boulevard. His immediate destination was the northeast corner of the intersection, but he went to the hospital instead. I noted how …
On the morning of November 28, Susan and I drove through a pretty steady drizzle from Mesquite Springs campground to Ubehebe Crater, which is next to the road to Racetrack Playa, with long-wanted plans for me to bike its 26-plus miles of washboarded badness while Susan drove it. Arriving at the crater we were confronted …
I knew going into this month I’d have to pedal like a possessed person if I was to cross my 7,000th biking mile by the end of the year. So Saturday I got up before the dawn to ride — but let the reeeally cold morning temps be a dissuasion. Same thing again Sunday morning. …