Pepper and Susan and I met Jigsaw on Super Bowl Sunday of 2004. Pepper, (left) was four years old, had been with me since August of 2001 and reigned as king of the one-bedroom apartment I lived in when I first moved to Silver Lake. Jiggy was about eight weeks of age when I went …
If you were in the vicinity of Silver Lake about 4 p.m. today did this Vicious Little Storm Cell That Cried blindside you, too? Dang! Sure, it grew overcast and colder and a little lightning-and-thundery a few minutes before the skies opened up, but who knew they’d open up with such a vengeance!? And then …
One of the highlights of our 2007 visit to Paris was the discovery of the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, across the street from the Hotel du Notre Dame where we stayed. I just learned that its founder, George Whitman, died. He was 98. What an amazing life he led. A set of photos inside and …
Forecast estimates fluctuated between yesterday’s storm dropping somewhere between a quarter- to half-inch of rain in the Los Angeles basin, and I saw a report on TV last night that in the end about two-thirds of an inch was recorded downtown. As has been the case with every storm that’s landed this fall, the total …
And once again whilst we decorated the Christmas tree, Susan has dressed Ranger in seasonally appropriate attire. But her expression below leaves me torn between whether she’s saying “Merry Christmas!” or “Get this ridiculous thing off me lest I seek my revenge upon any and all socks you dare leave upon the floor now and …
You might recall I’ve had pretty good luck photographing full moons with my it-shouldn’t-work-but-it-does (sometimes) technique of holding a point-and-shoot cam up against the eyepiece of a 60x spotting scope on a tripod and snapping a shot. Well, not so much — go figure — with a full lunar eclipse, like the one that occurred …