Not To Bee

At the Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night (to see Robert Cray, Keb’ Mo’ and Mavis Staples) Susan and I got there early enough to eat dinner at one of the picnic areas. Across from where we were sitting was a group of three people — two men and a woman — whose conversation and meal had …

Dog Butt Drum Frivoliciousness

Video streaming by Ustream The following was brought to you by the Syncopated Dog Butt Drum Drillteam Association of Silver Lake — Occidental Boulevard Chapter. Where there’s a butt, there’s a beat!

Ranger Fetches!

Ranger At The Dog Park a video by Wildbell on Flickr. We’ve changed up our early morning one-mile walk route from around the blocks to a two-mile Silver Lake Dog Park there-and-back, where Ranger has had the entire place to herself and happily enjoys playing longer-range fetch.

Stark Raven Mad

OK, well that’s odd. No, more than odd. Sinister. Surreal. Sinisturreal, if you will. I walked out onto the porch with my camera in hopes of getting some hummingbird images around their freshly refilled feeder this glorious (if muggy morning) and something brought my eyes up into the neighbor’s camphor laurel tree whose boughs reach …