Today’s Big Pictures of A Little Thing
A small butterfly of unknown species, landed and less than a couple tenths of a second later, aloft (click them for the bigger pictures):
Continuing On The Flower & Bee Theme
Every year around this time the scraggly gangly malnourished magnolia tree growing (and I use “growing” in its sickliest sense) on the parkway in front of our house surprises me with a nice crop of blossoms. And every year around this time when one opens in just the right place I’ll park myself on the …
Power to the Purple!
(click it for the bigger picture) Thursday’s LA Times brought to my attention the 8th-Annual Ojai Valley Lavender Festival, and it didn’t take much convincing to get Susan on board for a daytrip out that gorgeous way. The festival itself took place in Ojai’s Libbey Park and featured scores and scores of vendors selling just …
Then There Was The Time I Met Peter Falk
It was briefly. VERY briefly. And to say “met” is to grossly exaggerate. “Met” implies an exchange of words, maybe a handshake… an assessment. My meeting Peter Falk consisted of him looking at me somewhat dubiously from the front door of his house just south of Sunset in Beverly Hills and me looking back at …
Rapid Growth
Just an update on the planter boxes I suspended from the south steps’ handrail. On June 11 it looked like this: And this afternoon, it’s looking like this, full of baby basil and cilantro and sunflowers: I’ve totally overpopulated it, but it’s certainly a purty thang to look at.
And Now A Scene From Our Next Episode of Masterstreets Theatre
(click for better readability) I love finding random stuff. Some litterbug’s trash is my momentary treasure. Even moreso when it’s just chock-full of unintentional irony, such as this second page of a brief scene discovered this morning in the gutter in front of our house. Why ironic? Well, being someone who makes valiant attempts to …
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