Up at 2:30 a.m. thanks to a power outage (that LADWP now says will continue to 12:30 p.m.), I paid a well-timed visit into the rainy backyard this morning, which offered me a chance to observe a neighborhood skunk who had started to come through our backyard but then reversed course and found an alternate …
With my morning wide open yesterday I found a bike rental place near the hotel and took a self-powered 3-hour cruise of discovery around lovely San Antonio. I visited the San Fernando Cathedral, the amazing King William Historic Residential District, the remarkable Mission Concepcion, a nice stretch of the city’s famed River Walk, and more …
One of my favorite poses of his.
Shadow and I found each other at Lake Balboa in the Sepulveda Basin on Labor Day of 1994. I was biking around the lake a couple dark months into my recovery from my near-fatal motorcycle accident, which wasn’t going all that well. She was a couple months old and abandoned. I was helpless not to …
Last week while pedaling on the LA River Bikeway a bird in the water caught my eye that I stopped and snapped (click the image for the bigger picture): Though my first thought was “black-crowned night heron,” it was substantially larger than any I’d seen, plus it didn’t have the typical starkly contrasting plummage much …
Rain? Really? Yes. GREAT.  But there are others out in it more perturbed than me — such as this squirrel frozen in the following position against the drizzle in the tree outside the study window using its tail as something of an umbrella and thereby adopting a truly mohican-esque profile: The image can be doublized …
Susan and I were enjoying our morning coffee on the front porch when Ranger went a little yippy and immediately after that I spotted a golden-brown chow loose and crossing from our side of the street to the other. You know me: I’m helpless to ignore a lost dog. Â So I grabbed a leash and …