Everyone's a Photographer
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Two free things to do this weekend.
I liked this juxtaposition of the burned land in gp, and the lush river. Bring your camera! And for very little gas money! (This part works better if you’re me.) I can see a glimpse of the LA River from where I live, and have been asking friends for YEARS if they want to go down in there with me, but there were no takers. It looks foreboding, cementy and maybe a little dangerous from a distance. The sliding slopes look distressing, like you could roll a body down there and no one’s the wiser. Not to mention all the pictures I’ve seen of ugly graffiti, trash, dead animals, etc.…
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Waiting for Angel Bats in Griffith Park.
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 I would have seen these toads myself (though I hope I would have. Did I ever mention that I have night blindness? Oh, yes, tripping over every tent spike in Girl Scout camp, that is me. But of course that has NOTHING to do with why I like bats.) Photo by Gerry Hans. Toad climbs…
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Water my plants while I’m gone, while you’re at it.
I’ve made so many new friends through blogging this year, and it is especially nice to get readers’ comments and emails. It’s great to hear from real people, instead of spam, or long chain letters. I’ll be going on holiday for a couple of weeks. Could one of you please water my plants while I’m gone? Pink geraniums do well here. Click for best image. (Contributed by a fellow cartoonist.)
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Silver Lake herons in an alternate universe.
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! Because I usually hum along with the sing-song voices in my head, I don’t always pay attention to what the outside world is doing. For instance, I was delighted to find the signs about missing herons along the fence of slk one night, and went back to take pictures a couple of days later. It…
