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Interesting story about the history of the Los Angeles River (and paving it).
Paving the Los Angeles River wasn’t an egalitarian idea. The plan for revitalizing it should be
As we remake the Los Angeles River once again, we ought to allow the river to re-make us, too — into a more equitable city.
Photo taken at: LAX – Los Angeles International Airport
May those of you who are traveling today get where you’re going with a minimum of hassle.
#lax #themebuilding #losangeles #airport #backlit #lateafternoon
The hour grows late, and Los Angeles rises out of the palm trees, preparing for another night. 😉
Seriously, though, I was trying out different settings on a camera with a good zoom lens.
In response to KemoNine asking about the haze:
By LA standards, for 11 miles away, that’s crystal clear!
We’ve actually had some really clear days over the last month or so, especially after the winds have blown all the smog out to sea (before they bring all the dust out from the desert a day or two later), interspersed with smoggy days and days when the sky is full of smoke from wildfires in the mountains or canyons. The smoke from the massive fire raging in Ventura is mostly being blown the other way from here.
It’s a lot better than it used to be 20 years ago. A couple of years back on a visit to my parents’, I noticed that I could see the mountains from their front door. I had never noticed that the whole time I was growing up there!
And even that was better than their stories of LA smog in the 60s: outdoor school activities cancelled due to smog, being unable to see the end of a block, observing sunspots directly…
Air quality laws have made a huge difference!
Photo taken at: Kenneth Hahn Park
Snow-dusted mountains behind the Los Angeles skyline. Closest we’ll get to a white Christmas, but the day certainly fit the song’s intro!
Photo taken at: Kenneth Hahn Park
Light snow on the San Gabriel mountains above Los Angeles, just in time for Christmas.
Photo taken at: Kenneth Hahn Park
There’s never been such a day… #losangeles #skyline #snowymountains #christmaseve #whitechristmas (the intro, anyway)
Downtown Los Angeles skyline after Sunday’s storm. Zoom photo from the LAX area.
Downtown Los Angeles from a distance. Despite the heat, the air is surprisingly clear over the LA basin. This is taken from the LAX area with a zoom lens. There’s still some atmospheric wiggling, but you can actually see the spire (and crane) on top of the Wilshire Grand Center, which is now the tallest building in LA.
Photo taken at: Proud Bird
Crenshaw Line Metro rail construction. Near LAX and The Proud Bird, the bridge spans 111th alongside Aviation Blvd. In the mirror (yes, I know I need to clean it) you can see the raised section that will connect the bridge from the existing Green Line Aviation Station over Imperial Hwy to this one. Just past the intersection, the track dives down below ground as it passes the end of the runway, after which it climbs up again to the future train station at Century Blvd.
LA spring #🌴 #🌤
Worth noting that LA’s air continues to get better, and the region has seen a *90% reduction in particle pollution* over the 17 years the report has been running.
LA Still Has Nation’s Unhealthiest Air, But There’s Reason to Breathe Easier
Los Angeles continues to earn its reputation for smog, but air pollution dropped to the lowest level in 17 years of monitoring.
Dashed contrail. You can really see that it appears and disappears with the same atmospheric conditions influencing natural cloud formation.
Photo taken at: Los Arboles Park
Storm water pond: Now with added storm water!
It rained pretty hard last night near home, and clearly it rained hard enough here that mud was flowing over the sidewalks, and the detention pond still had water at noon. On a related note, yes, they’re still watering the lawn too much here. At least there’s a lot less of it than there used to be before the renovation, between the hollow and all the planters full of native and otherwise less-thirsty plants and wood chips behind where I was standing. #pond #losangeles #rainwater
Photo taken at: LAX – Los Angeles International Airport
#LAX Theme Building and control tower, late afternoon.
Photo taken at: LAX – Los Angeles International Airport
Photo taken at: LAX – Los Angeles International Airport
Looking up at an abandoned office building near LAX. A Cal Fed bank sign is still faintly visible at another corner.
#LAX #losangeles #arches #windows #officebuilding
