Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal marsh, but the lens flare…
The actual good photos from my hike are on Flickr, if you’re interested
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal marsh, but the lens flare…
The actual good photos from my hike are on Flickr, if you’re interested
Naturally-screened city.
In the distance: buildings along Los Angeles’ Wilshire Blvd as seen from the hills of Kenneth Hahn Park, an island of open space in the middle of the suburban sprawl.
Two views of a rainbow during a rainstorm a few days ago (first of the season for southern California).
Comment thread on Facebook.
J: “My mom’s porgs are the tastiest porgs in the whole world….probably.”
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!
First photo: Wildflower bloom this past spring in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
HTTP status cats by GirlieMac: classic server error codes, now with cats
Oh, these are great! Definitely follow through to the Flickr set!
HTTP Status codes illustrated using cats. Yes, she even includes 418.
View from hotel (if it works)
Now imagine that open area FULL of people lining up to get in to Hall H at Comic Con.