March 31, 2014
Also," throw the ball" wroof.
March 30, 2014
Old-fashioned word, splendid, but today with the light and the sky and the breeze and the blue, the general California-ness of it all, that says it best.
March 29, 2014
In our house there's the make believe of Daylight Saving time:
And then there's the clock that stays set to true time.
March 28, 2014
The meyer lemon tree up at the barn is in bloom:
March 27, 2014
Every year this datura comes back, and every year I'm so glad to see it.
March 26, 2014
The avocado orchard near the barn is so pretty right now I just kept taking (almost) the same picture--
...over--
...and over--
...and over again.
March 25, 2014
Remember this, a decades-old stand of prickly pear beneath a grove of oaks in the Santa Monica mountains?
Now it's this, stubs surrounded by shattered beer bottles because, well, boys with guns.
March 24, 2014
It didn't last very long but the marine layer hanging over the mountains this morning was a lovely surprise.
March 23, 2014
California would throw you such a party if only you'd show up.
March 22, 2014
The Cove pier:
...and the orange of storey poles which means new construction.
March 21, 2014
Shall we look at the wisteria up at the barn one more time before they go?
March 20, 2014
Ah winter, we hardly knew you. A few days of sprinkles and just one real storm, the rest of it dry and more dry with some freakishly hot (the hottest California winter on record) stretches. It'll be interesting to see what comes next.
Meanwhile, the Druids are out at Stonehenge, Google is celebrating with a doodle (you don't need a hyperlink to find that do you?), Bad Astronomy explains the seasons (so does Wikipedia), and my personal favorite, NASA brings you the vernal equinox from space.
Happy spring!
March 19, 2014
...is so pretty.
March 18, 2014
He was very patient, this handsome red-winged blackbird, waiting for the photog to get a few shots and then, pretty please, leave him and the girl he had his eye on in peace.
March 17, 2014
Quiet and still.
March 16, 2014
We've almost reached the tipping point where the tender green of brand new leaves gives way to the darker shades of summer. And it isn't even spring yet.
March 15, 2014
Tiny flowers join the change-of-seasons chorus.
March 14, 2014
Wisteria season up at the barn.
March 13, 2014
A frill of clouds, pretty little place holders for the winter storms that never came our way.
March 12, 2014
Even when the dogs aren't in view, the ducks and grebes and redwing blackbirds are chatting away, enjoying a beautiful March morning at the lake.
March 11, 2014
So very, very dry.
March 10, 2014
Paradise Cove on May 12, 2012.
March 9, 2014
It's Daylight Saving Time again, the only good part of which (imho) is that the True Detective finale aired an hour earlier.
(Spoiler alert!)
I loved the Casablanca ending, and the fact the twist everyone was waiting for wasn't that one of our heroes is a depraved killer, but that Rust turns out to be an optimist.
Allright allright allright.
March 8, 2014
Everything else may be changing in the renovation transforming Malibu Coast Animal Hospital (whose wonderful docs and staff have taken care of Max and Jake and Evinrude and Patsy and Maisie and now Walt) but this impish angel stays the same.
March 7, 2014
The light this morning was so...light, without weight, clear and pure and filled with birdsong.
March 6, 2014
At some point each evening, after the sun is gone, Walt spends time in the kitchen with the dog on the other side of the door.
March 5, 2014
25 November, 2007.
March 4, 2014
Yesterday afternoon near the Malibu Pier, for a little minute the sky did this:
Crazy.
March 3, 2014
This lovely oak, one of a dozen or so in an ancient (does a hundred years, give or take, count as ancient?) grove in the Santa Monica mountains split in half during this recent round of rain.
March 2, 2014
Huge surf at the beach today which I'd be happy to show you if not for...
...a bit of a challenge in the visibility department.
March 1, 2014
Hello, March. Wet and gray look good on you.
Here's the Cove this morning as the storm moved through:
The creek channel is even deeper today:
Stormy to the north:
Here's the Point Dume headlands yesterday, deserted.
Except for pelicans:
And a scatter of sea birds, looking at first like random dots:
But of course it's a flock--
...working together against the wind.
More rain, please.
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