And he did – all three of them. In Burbank. While on the phone. 🙂
P.S.: The “hands off the phone” rule does not apply to horseback riders.
Author: Petra
Easter Hike
With one of us still limping with a broken fibula and the other one not shod quite right for extensive hiking, we spent only about an hour in Deukmejian Park, which has been opened bit by bit again after the Station Fire in 2009.
Nature does try to regain what was lost and burned; at least the scrub, grasses and wildflowers are back up this year.
To replace the trees lost new ones have been planted. Photos of those will follow in ten years in this blog – right now they are just wee little saplings, protected by mesh and marked by little flags.
Bathing Billy
What’s an elephant to do when it is really hot outside?
Take a bath, of course!
Tai Chi-Turtle
Well, why not?
Señor Fish
Do you know this feeling – you are driving past a place and it just hits you… you have to stop and go in and try it out…
Boy, we were lucky that we did! Señor Fish rocks! Big Time.
Both the Fish Taco Sampler
(Halibut, Tuna & Salmon) and the Sopes
made us swear to come back next weekend to Eagle Rock to investigate the menu further.
General impression: Superior food and laid back premises – what’s not to like?
Come With Me, I’ll Show You Something!
While the Canada Geese are already taking their offspring for a walk,
the Great Blue Herons are still busy getting the nest ready.
Of course they are not the only ones – in the trees left and right other couples are preparing to start a family.
Why this guy is still up and about, nobody knows. It’s a Night Heron – he should be hanging out in a tree, waiting for nightfall.
You want to know in which secret corner of California one can discover all these birds and many, many more?
Two miles from Downtown Los Angeles, at Echo Park Lake.
Give it a try any morning at around 8 AM – you will be amazed.
Cold? Wet? Windy?
Oh no – not today, on the first Day of Spring and the L.A. Marathon.
But Spring it is and the Marathon has been run, with a fabulous victory by two Ethiopians.
So there – nothing spoils our fun here in Los Angeles!
Prepared And Ready…
…for Spring.
Good Morning!
A few times each year the local zoo opens very early in the morning for its members to come in and watch the animals having breakfast and such.
Even at this early hour the meerkats had already put out sentries… just in case…
The tapir gave us a friendly smile, even though we disturbed him during breakfast.
In the next enclosure the tortoises were plotting again how to take over world power. They agreed on acting very, very, very slowly.
Those giraffes… Guys, just having a long neck does not make you automatically a superior being. Stop looking so smug!
This is not a Black Bear, this is a lazy bear. So lazy that he can sleep even while sitting.
And this is a totally exhausted sentry. It’s not easy being a meerkat!
Straight From Satan’s Paw
Give the Girl Scouts the $5 – no problem.
Only weak people take the cookies too.
