Yesterday I shared pictures of a beautiful yellow rose that had burst out, viewed in the bright morning sunlight as I was headed to the office.
Then when I got home, it was dark (winter solstice tomorrow!) and it was lit up in a different light.
The iPhone was unfortunately highly confused about what to focus on in that lighting, but this is an obvious learning experience for us all.
Filed under Christmas Lights, Critters, Flowers, Photography
As I went out to the car this morning to go to the office, I saw that the first (and only, so far) rose of December had exploded open.
We’re still in California, not Texas, but this one would do Texas proud!
Filed under Critters, Flowers, Photography
A week before Christmas. Where does the rabbit hole of old pictures take us?
2,500 miles and fifty-one years, apparently. And into a black & white world. On film.
My camera at the time was a very old Argus film camera with a fixed lens. I was playing with using a pair of binoculars as a telephoto lens, with a rig I had put together myself to attach to a tripod and hold the camera and binoculars in place. This is from the hill behind our house, looking at the roof of the rectory from the Catholic Church across the street, to the First Congregational Church at the lower left edge of the picture, to Stellafane Hill off in the distance to the southwest.
If only I could talk to that 17-year-old kid for five minutes…
Filed under Critters, Paul, Photography
Christmas is ten days away.
Shazzbatt!
Is it time to panic yet? Anyone else have unreasonable expectations to meet for others while hoping and praying for things that you’re never going to get?
If only panic would do any good…
Filed under Critters, Photography
Technically it’s almost a full moon, about 98%+ at the time.
The glow around the Moon is from a layer of clouds, which are just barely thin enough to allow the Moon and Jupiter (off to the right of the Moon, near the tree) to be seen.
In person, it was striking!
There’s Jupiter, off in the upper right. It should be visible also in the first two pictures if you click on them and blow them up to full sized, but here the clouds had shifted a bit and the King of the Planets is shining through!
Filed under Astronomy, Christmas Lights, Critters, Photography
Friday night, a couple of hours after everyone is gone.
Corner office, top floor, the fancy suite. With the perks come the responsibilities.
(It’s not my office or our suite.)
Filed under ALS Network, Critters, Paul, Photography
Have you ever wondered what the walls and interior structure and “skeleton” of a large (at least seven stories tall) apartment building looks like? Sure you have!
This is going up next to our office building (the shiny building in the distance on the right) and it’s interesting to watch as it grows.
I was running tax returns to the Post Office (just to the left) and got this view with some clouds and dramatic lighting. A nice break for a few minutes from the desk.
Filed under Critters, Los Angeles, Photography
It’s a sad state of affairs when every public place that can have a large crowd, like a stadium, has to be surrounded by security barriers to keep anyone in a car or truck from driving onto the site with evil intent. But that’s the world we live in.
The upside, when the property owner allows it and desires to make it so, is that the barriers can be more than just concrete and steel ballisters and K-rail.
At Dignity Health Sports Center where the LA Galaxy play soccer (and where we had our ALS Network event this last Sunday), they’ve made an interesting and excellent choice.
Not only are the barriers made of planters, the plants used are colorful and unusual. I like colorful! I like unusual!
It also makes a nice little habitat for a bunch of small critters, including spiders. I wasn’t sure if the webs would be visible in these pictures, but I got lucky!
The PlantNet app on my phone IDs this all as “milkbush,” also known as “pencil cactus.”
It’s native to South Africa and commonly used for decorative landscaping. It’s also highly toxic if eaten, and if the stems are broken the sap can cause irritation and burns.
Interesting!
Filed under ALS Network, Critters, Flowers, Photography
As I was getting home from the ALS Network LA Walk & Ride To Cure ALS on Sunday evening, it got pretty.
The GOP misinformation machine would have you believe that SoCal is a cesspool of vice, trash, grafitti, and crime.
Obviously. Why would they lie about something like that?
Filed under ALS Network, Christmas Lights, Critters, Los Angeles, Photography, Politics, Sunsets
The winds, they are a blowin’ again, with the humidity low and the fire danger high. The little bit of rain we got a week or so ago and all of the winds now have stripped away almost all of the dead leaves, but there are a few hangers on way up high.
We’ll see how many of these make it through the night.
Filed under Critters, Photography
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