Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree on Dec 19th, 2010
Image by RodneyRamsey via Flickr Have you noticed any “moisture flow” in Los Angeles today? That’s what Fox News is calling this rainstorm that has already lasted 2 days! Of course, this has all the weather people on the edge of their seat, but it’s not so much. As the LA Times (reluctantly) admits: No [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree on Feb 21st, 2010
The Dalai is coming, the Dalai is coming! To Los Angeles! Saith the LA Times: The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism arrived in Los Angeles on Friday and planned to spend the weekend here in support of Whole Child International, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of orphaned and abandoned children. In an interview [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree on Nov 27th, 2009
Tiger Woods had an accident November 27th. Tree was unharmed, however. From the AP: The Orlando Sentinel reported that an orange and white barricade sat on top of a hole in front of Woods’ home. About 10 feet away, there was a tire track near an oak tree in his neighbor’s yard. The tree had [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, LADWP on Nov 2nd, 2009
Made a great discovery for my first blog post in the LA Weekly! And I didn’t get any comments, but I got 3 tweets, which was nice. L.A. mystery: Fountain of Youth natural spring in Griffith Park? Did Fern Dell residents living along the southern edge of Griffith Park find a Fountain of Youth? The [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Important Stuff on Dec 8th, 2007
I thought I should add to my post below that the LA Department of Water and Power has more of a true safety issue than Street Services: they have to trim trees that come too close to high-power wires. The story they have repeated to me several times is that once a palm frond touched [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree, Breaking the 4th Wall on Oct 9th, 2007
Here is the second recent comment I wanted to respond to: Does anybody know (specifically) who’s in charge of ordering trees to be cut at Griffith Park? I’ve been a frequent runner on many of the trails in Griffith Park over the past 5 years and I’m intimately familiar with its pre and post-fire foliage. [...]
