2nd Street Tunnel/2nd Annual Toy Ride

Here’s a realtime shakycam vidclip I shot entrance-to-exit through the 2nd Street Tunnel as cyclists who had set out from Hollywood made their way to Olvera Street as part of last night’s 2nd Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride: Flickr photoset of the night here.

2899.2

And just like that, with tonight’s ride home from work I’m 100 (point-eight) miles from my revised annual bike mileage goal of 3,000. Wasn’t it just September 20 when I arrived at 2,007? Yes, it was. Did I kick ass this fall? Indeed, I did. Am I already thinking about how far I want to …

Historicool

While killing some time waiting for Tuesday night’s downtown bike ride, I rolled around taking snaps of some of the local dramatic landmarkery (click to biggify): The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles The rear of the Bullocks Wilshire Building with beacon lit. What I find most interesting about the two buildings is that the …

Sadly Ironic

With some time to kill before meeting up with the iaal•maf near LaFayette Park for a downtown art ride followed by some barbecue and beers at Spring Street Smokehouse I rolled around the way a bit, snapping I’ve long admired the Bullocks Wilshire building and equally appreciated the Southwestern School of Law for taking possession …

Behold: The Yellow-Breasted Splash’n Dasher

In my webcammings of late I’ve been pointing the camera through a window out into the side garden at a makeshift birdbath that I set up awhile ago during some particularly nasty hot and dry spell. To my consterned surprise the effort went entirely ignored for a few weeks by what turned out to be …

Snow Way!

This crystal clear morning provided a nice vista from my office of the distant San Gabriels dusted with some of that mythical white stuff (click to biggify):