Sunset Junk Shun

If there’s one moment that shows my hip quotient to be less than zero when divided by one while also calling into question my credentials as a native angeleno it occured in the run-up to the long-running  Sunset Junction streetfair in 2001 when a fellow coworker at the time — who was so hip her …

Timelapsification

Oh, it’s on! I got home around 6 p.m. to find one of the San Pedro cactus night-blooming blossoms just itchin’ to open up and I rushrushrushed to get everything set up to capture it in all its glory, which my blogbud Julia asked in the comments of my first attempt if I’d actually taken …

Mid-Day Movie

Recorded yesterday, I apologize that it’s a 16-megabiscuit file but that’s what happens when you add music and slo-mo and stuff. The Dust Ball Era Featuring Ranger Click here for video Or if the higher rez ain’t worth the increased hez, here’s the YouTube link.

Foreign The Flora

File this under Never Ceast To Amaze. Last year it was morel mushrooms that sprang up outta nowhere in the backyard. This year in a decidedly barren patch along the northside of the house this pair of two-foot-tall bulb-tipped stalks climb vertical out of the dirt with no complementary greenery and proceed to go off …

Palms & Perseids

When I went out in the backyard I was so enamored with the big dipper sitting on top of the house’s roof line that even though it was bed time I went to the trouble to set up the camera for the purpose of capturing that scene. And after failing to do that to any …