Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Creatures on May 28th, 2008
I’ve never really understood why blogs feel the necessity to put down the MSM all the time. And locally, that means the Times. Of course, there is a lot that I disagree with, and part of that is their slant, but I still respect it, read it, and enjoy some of it. Gruesome photo of [...]
Posted in Creatures on May 27th, 2008
Be your own Indiana Jones and discover rare species in SoCal parks in a supercool event this weekend: Bioblitz. Anyone can sign up to go out with a scientist or naturalist to hunt for mammals, reptiles, butterflies, moss, ferns, birds, etc, in any park that’s listed! They even have night hunts for owls and bats! [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Creatures, Important Stuff on Feb 12th, 2008
The last time I rode a horse I got thrown off. It was up in the Beachwood Canyon Stables, on a very beautiful trail in gp, with the steepest drops on either side you can imagine (which looked much higher sitting 4 feet up, on 4 feet). It was almost (his) dinnertime, I found out [...]
Posted in Creatures on Feb 11th, 2008
Bats. I look forward to the Science File in the LA Times each Saturday! It’s only one section of a page, (and this weekend it’s only ONE item, bummer) but it’s usually an interesting little roundup of natural history, physics, and other tidbits. Sad news here, that bats are dying of a mysterious illness. The [...]
Posted in Creatures on Feb 9th, 2008
Opossums. Speaking of lao, Kevin always finds the interesting stuff happening around LA! He has a poem, yes, a poem, by Larry Levis, about an opossum trying to cross a busy Santa Monica street, poor thing. He found it in another blog, The Millennial Pedestrian. The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. By Larry Levis At [...]
