Three things of note since the Lake was forcibly drained on Thursday:
- I saw a wary, rare opossum in someone’s very exposed front yard, obviously hungry and foraging.
- I caught this comment at LACurbed yesterday (along with some new photos): “Now I know why I had a couple beautiful but somewhat disoriented ducks in my front yard yesterday morning. I was worried they had West Nile so I’m glad they were just looking for a pond instead.” Well, that’s a cheerful thought, assuming birds have a deadly disease. But anyway, the ducks could well have been the Lesser Scaup in my post below, and they weren’t carrying the virus, they were eating the mosquitoes that could give you the virus. PLEASE be hospitable towards them!
- The LADWP always has at least one guard inside the reservoir, day or night, and at night I see his car circling the work road, or more often, see them sitting in their cars. This evening, the guard actually GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AND WALKED.
Residents around reservoirs, whether your guest is duck or opossum or man, please be generous and put lots of water out for these beasts!
And PS. I have a good cartoon in Parade today, so very poignant that the editor himself asked for a copy to frame.
Syndicated cartoonist in the New Yorker, LA Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, textbooks, papers. Columnist for 10 years in Psychology Today.
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Set painter in studio Art Depts. Member Scriptwriters Network, script analyst.
Author, 2 hardcopy books, Barnes & Noble Calendar.
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