Griffith Park and Silver Lake, Fire and Water.
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 with The [...]
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. [...]
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 mystery surfaced in [...]
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 on Jul 11th, 2007
You will recall, faithful readers, that at my last nh meeting, I heard a very disturbing rumor: that 900 additional trees had been removed after the fire. These were not burned trees. They were just chopped down.
Now Vicky Israel, Griffith Park Manager at the time, had said that the plan was to fell about 160 [...]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
Griffith Park and Silver Lake, Fire and Water.
