Some mornings are just perfect: After a tasty breakfast one wanders over to the friendly neighborhood art gallery to feast some more on interesting art. These are just two examples from the “Rouge Taxidermy Show” at the La Luz de Jesus Gallery (May 7 – 30, 2010).
There… hiding out amongst some books. I could not resist this little toy. Why should only kids have fun with friendly ghosts moonlighting as lamps?
Last night a mockingbird practiced his scales near the house – so loud that I woke up. A quick check of the time told me that it was just before 4 o’clock in the morning. Wow, I thought, that mockingbird seems to be wooing his mate along the lines of: “I’ll sing for you until [...]
Six more days to go until the official beginning of spring. But who cares about dates? With clocks switched over, the air outside like silk, freesias and orange blossoms scenting the air and mockingbirds starting to practice their scales, spring is already in full swing.
This snoozing hippo was not the only one totally disinterested in the sporting event of the year. After the rush to the stores to stock up on chips, dips, beer, wings, pizza and related foodstuff essential for a Superbowl Sunday the streets emptied out and the town was all ours. Unamerican? No, nice!
Yes, yes, the rains have arrived – finally! That’s the good news. The bad news is that the rains came on the wings of some quite remarkable storms; we’re just through the second wave of winds with gusts of over 72 miles per hour and two more storm waves are expected until Friday of this [...]
They used trains and built train stations. One of them is the Santa Fe Depot in San Bernardino. This building, which replaced an earlier structure, was officially opened in 1918. At that time this was the largest and finest train station west of the Mississippi. As the former station building had burned down, the new [...]
That’s the beauty of Southern California: every kind of outdoor activity is just a short drive away. This photo was taken in Griffith Park, where we hiked with plenty of water and in short sleeves. With it being officially Winter, no shorts (but that is just us – other hikers just went by temperatures and [...]
The last day of the year – the last day of the decade even… So much happened. In 2000 I had no idea that 10 years later I would celebrate this day today in Southern California, under a blue sky, enjoying the sun, feeling calmly confident that all will be well. Here’s to the next [...]
Two weeks ago there was a complete and utter failure at 1&1 Web Hosting. We don’t know what happened, and we don’t know how many sites were destroyed. We can’t even get anyone at 1&1 to admit that “mistakes were made.” Here’s how I imagine that they fixed the problem: At any rate…we are back [...]
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