Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Compliment Corner, Everyone's a Photographer on Apr 18th, 2008
Well, who can define a present, really? Different things to different folks. Someone forwarded an email to me from a water engineer: This made me laugh! She is an entertaining, if uninformed, writer. Bromate is a known carcinogen at the concentrations found in Silverlake Reservoir. LADWP needs to prevent its formation by reducing sunlight on [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Apr 12th, 2008
Or, $1.29. Still a fave. The LA Times had a nice article on wildflowers, and how if you turn your car in the right direction, you, too, might find yourself falling in love, in the canyons, in the deserts, in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. (Oh, how L. Frank Baum would have loved this.) [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, Silver Lake on Mar 11th, 2008
Downtown, with a puddle to mark where Silver Lake should be. Interrupted, or DEAD? As of tonight, the north side of Silver Lake, the Ivanhoe Reservoir, is also gone. The remains as seen from my window. *Updated. I had to get permission from Medical News Today to quote this: Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, People who don't know any better, Silver Lake on Mar 7th, 2008
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep. Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep – it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Jan 29th, 2008
Well, you know we ARE, because we don’t like to drive all that much. But this could be a mountain town! Almost same perspective as the one below, but a sunnier day. It’s Brand Blvd, in Atwater, and I looked it up on the map and I’m almost certain the mountain is Mt. Olympus! I [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2008
The oddly moderated Griffith Park Recovery, which has only anonymous posts, in a boring press release style, says some (most?) roads into GP will be closed for rain. Past rain, that is; no rain yet today. Includes the Bird Sanctuary, and we know how popular that is. For no determinate time. So don’t count on [...]
