Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Sep 26th, 2008
Rob Lowe played for a charity golf tournament in Iowa, and hit and killed a goldfinch with a golf ball. This happened (Defamer) over a year ago, in June of 2007, even making the hit list on TMZ, but on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Rob isn’t much of a conversationalist, so this was “new” [...]
Posted in Creatures, Everyone's a Photographer on Sep 4th, 2008
Yes, that is a squirrel on the electric tower. He’s King of the World! Or at least, of Silver Lake. I rarely see squirrels in Los Angeles. I’m not saying they’re an endangered species, but they’re nowhere near as common as skunks, or even coyotes around here. Back east they’re everywhere. (But I miss chipmunks [...]
Posted in Creatures, Everyone's a Photographer on Jul 10th, 2008
This is a preview of my Upcoming Attraction blog post on: Hunting bats in Griffith Park! That alone is probably enough to get your blood boiling, but one of my fellow bat hunters, Gerry Hans, co-chair of the PROS committee, noticed something else, or 2 something elses, in his bat searching area. I’m not sure [...]
Posted in Creatures, The Land the Times Forgot on Jul 6th, 2008
UPDATED: here. Ooh, good, I thought. An opinion on chickens. This is something I might want to read understand. Photo credit: Compassion Over Killing. I appreciate the humane way the HSUS treats photographers, too, by giving them proper credit. Chicken Run, by Julia Olmstead, is about an initiative by the Humane Society to outlaw battery [...]
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 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! [...]
