Dawgz On The Stairz

As our renovation project nears closer to completion (still some 3-5 weeks out), we’ve begun letting dogs Ranger and Shadow up into the second floor for lookabouts, and to get them more comfortable with the (still-unfinished) stairs. Ranger has the legs to allow a smoother more refined traversal, but Shadow with her stunted stems demonstrates …

Pit Stop II

On the heels of last week’s “Pit Stop” in South Los Angeles while on the way to work, I had another last night coming home through the Crestview neighborhood near Venice and La Cienega boulevards — specifically under the 10 Freeway overpass. She was a big bold beauty. Had a collar but no tags. She …

Pit Stop

I stopped on my bike ride in to work this morning and and gave a most awesome  pit bull a baggy full of kibble and some lovin’. She’s was both receptive and appreciative. I wrote about it with other pix and a timelapse vid here on Metblogs.

A Sphinx, Methinx

For the past week or so, I’ve caught fleeting glimpses of it. Always on the move and quickly so, the hardworking white-lined sphinx moth is in its seasonal moment, and this one seems to find the flowers around our yard to be a good source of nectar. During the day the sphinx moth wastes little …

That’s “Internationally Published Nature Photographer” To You

Not quite a year ago whilst biking to work one morning I passed a patch of passion fruit flowers growing on a fence alongside the Ballona Creek Bikeway near Sepulveda Boulevard and among the many marvelous blossoms found a big and busy carpenter bee hard at work on one. As I go nowhere without a …

Feelin’ Froggy

It may still be a couple weeks until spring gets sprung, but to a batch of Ballona Creek amphibians making a racket loud enough to stop me and my bike cold last night for an appreciative listen, it’s already here. Hear them for yourself in this audio I captured on-scene last night by the Duquense …