I don’t even know… it may have only been a couple/three weeks ago, but it seems a lot longer since we converted the dining room into our bedroom to make way for the renovation work making its way down from the second floor. However long it’s been is about how long our cat Bink — …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …