Besides the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California African American Museum the park is home to the California Science Center, part of which is the Sketch Foundation Gallery – Air and Space Exhibits. Just to make sure that nobody who wants to visit the gallery gets lost, they decorated the outside [...]
Yes, they are busy, those bees. This one, with pollen basket already stuffed full, is still on the job for more. Now I can spend the afternoon trying to figure out the source of that pollen. Drat, I should have asked the bee.
Plane landing at Las Vegas Airport “Winged Figures of the Republic” by Oskar J.W. Hansen at Hoover Dam Greedy Grackle Flock of California Quail
While Mom is out and about looking for food (or taking a break from parenting) the youngsters are staying close to home. After all, the first lesson every Californian ground squirrel learns is: “If it has feathers and comes at you from above – go underground. Double quick!” Grey squirrels in parks have a different [...]
The hot Sunday was followed by a broiling hot Monday. Due to the winds coming in from the Mojave Desert, temperatures in Downtown Los Angeles rose to 100°F (37,7°C). The forecast for today is just a bit lower, back to 94°F. It is a bit difficult to keep cool or at least comfortable, if one [...]
It’s the time of the year again when mockingbirds and starlings are checking out the most desirable spaces to start nesting and raise the brood. Mockingbirds move into lushly green trees, starlings into more barren spaces underneath eaves and rain gutters. Both camps seem to be of the opinion that they have a wing up [...]
The secret to staying sleek and slim in spite of generous helpings at breakfast? A vigorous workout.
We all have them: dreams about where to retire. My favorite location would be somewhere desert-y, near a small liberal university with a good reputation, in an adobe house with a backyard where flocks of California quail come by regularly to take dust baths with their offspring. Nothing amuses me more than those quail with [...]
Mt. Hollywood (1,640 feet) is the highest point in Griffith Park. So why not start the New Year with a hike up there? Up the Aberdeen Trail, along the Hogback Trail, over the bridge, past Dante’s View, up to the peak, down again, over to the Observatory and back to the car by way of [...]
Reindeer pullovers are out. Like totally so. This season the discerning Chihuahua wouldn’t be caught dead in anything but red fleece.
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