Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Important Stuff, Silver Lake on Jun 11th, 2008
The bird balls dwp dropped into Ivanhoe with much fanfare this week were tested by NSF for one condition only: whether or not they leach chemicals into water that is exactly 73.4 degrees Fahrenheit. These bird balls passed that test, but have not been tested (or they failed) for everything else! Numbers, please. Photo from [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on Jun 11th, 2008
Really, I couldn’t say it better myself! Reading what some other blogs had to say about the 6 million bird balls thrown into the reservoir Monday, to the tune of $2 million, I was most impressed with the commenters themselves! Take a peek. A commenter over at Curbed LA had something interesting to say: The [...]
Posted in LADWP, Silver Lake on Jun 9th, 2008
Now the LA Times is FINALLY noticing what I’ve been talking about for months: the bird balls are coming, the bird balls are coming…and have arrived. They have pictures up there. Photo from LA Times blog. I would write to them to get permission, but every time I do that, no one answers. The writer [...]
Posted in LADWP, Silver Lake on May 30th, 2008
I see that LA Curbed talks about the bird balls soon to be thrown in Ivanhoe Reservoir. Finally! I am not alone! White bags filled with black bird balls of doom on the north end of Silver Lake. The title there is punnish (which I hate), but they always have good comments at LA Curbed. [...]
Posted in Silver Lake on May 27th, 2008
Of the myriads of people in this state I’ve been talking with recently, I was most impressed by the excellent Pete Weisser of the Department of Water Resources. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California State Information Officers Council (SiOC) and he was in the California Health Department investigating the Anacin laced with [...]
Posted in Creatures, Silver Lake on May 20th, 2008
Great blue herons kicked out of Silver Lake. I went over to Silver Lake right before I got sick, to take some photos of the lake as it was refilling. I had seen this sign up on the fence a couple of days earlier; SOMEONE took it down since I took the photo. It has [...]
