Silver Lake, bring out your water!
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.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.
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