Thanks to Ted mentioning it over at his BikinginLA blog, I quickly ventured to the App Store on my iPhone and downloaded the free Bike Your Drive app from REI. Aside from it totally crashing my phone at the outset of my evening commute when I attempted to use its photo function, so far so …
Wanted to give a visual update on the sunflowers we planted May 3 (click for the bigger picture). The 10 I first posted about here are in the foreground — pretty much peat-pot-and-all transplanted into the ground in the same order as they were in that photo. The rest behind were planted in a row …
Well, there she is. Done. Finis. Born the dream to reality, it is the centerpiece of our remodel; the connective tissue reuniting after some 50-plus years apart the upstairs to the downstairs and the downstairs to the upstairs. Traditionally the core of a home is its fireplace — just take the last “h” from hearth …
For wont of a post of any substance, here’s a Friday slice-o’-life list of three things I’ve done most recently, one entirely frivolous (though somewhat frugal); one reverse rebellious (in a lemons-to-lemonade way); and one begrudingly practical. FRIVOLOUS I’m not at all certain of the circumstances, but be it a Christmas or birthday or just …
I can’t recall when might the last time someone in Southern California was struck and killed by lightning, but in the midst of yesterday’s freak strom, just such a freak tragedy happened to a 40-year-old woman who was reportedly just walking along a residential street. Next thing she’s dead, “with most of her clothes blown …
Check out Dan Turner, L.A. River Hater, in the L.A. Times. The dude goes for a five-mile bike ride along the path from Griffith Park to Fletcher and comes back like some definitive expert with things like this to say: “…I’d like to write some Whitmanesque stanzas about the atomic oneness of nature, but the …
Fun with captions: In the above image by AP Photographer Richard Vogel of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa discussing the city’s new $7-billion budget while backed-up by a squad of Los Angeles City Firefighters now forced by department cuts to do double duty as unpaid bodyguards, Villaraigosa is shown: Demonstrating how big his ego used to be? …