Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Compliment Corner, Silver Lake on Jul 14th, 2008
The last thing a blogger wants to do is write about him or herself, but sometimes it becomes necessary to use the “I” pronoun. For instance, last week I wrote about a press release that NSF issued about the bird balls in Ivanhoe. Because the manufacturer, Orange Products, emailed it to me, I thought that [...]
Posted in Creatures, Silver Lake on Jul 6th, 2008
Well, looks like I was right! How very satisfying. After I posted my second blog last week about the missing great blue heron photographer, who posted her photographs publicly on the slk reservoir fence, she wrote in my comments this weekend! Go here to read all by Joan M. Harrison, the photographer. Once again, ye [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Jul 3rd, 2008
Or will both sides be happy? Given a choice, I like to err on the negative side. I just talked with Julian Calvin-Harris at cb’s office yesterday. I haven’t written anything about the slk meadow here until now because a) I didn’t know enough about it, and b) I’m already working on behalf of gp, [...]
Posted in Creatures, Everyone's a Photographer, Silver Lake on Jul 2nd, 2008
Another Silver Lake, another heron. Photo COPYRIGHT by the talented Michael S. Palmer. Michael took this in St Helens, WA. But I can see snow mountains like this (for a few weeks a year) in Silver Lake, and if they leave the Meadow alone, this could be slk soon, if dwp does what it PROMISED! [...]
Posted in Compliment Corner, Silver Lake on Jun 22nd, 2008
My last post about the HDPE bird balls the LADWP dumped in Silver Lake that have not been tested properly was quite shocking to people, as well it should be. Laurie Pepper left a comment here that I thought might interest other readers: I’ve been sending emails to my local neighborhood watch group here by [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Jun 18th, 2008
Okay, that’s a little girly. But how else to explain why the dwp “forgot” that both Silver Lake and Ivanhoe Reservoirs are cultural landmarks? That before they drained a drop, or made a game out of throwing HDPE bird balls into it, they should have gotten permission from City Planning? No, we don’t have to [...]
