February 28, 2019
Only five seconds because the camera battery died. This particular game of tag lasted for a good five minutes.
Also, happy birthday to Walt today, who just turned 6.
February 27, 2019
The weather maps say there may be rain on the way and the Pacific agrees.
February 26, 2019
Little by little, this tree is returning to earth.
February 24, 2019
We're seeing the first of the wildflowers in Bluffs Park, rain-fed and happy.
February 23, 2019
PCH at Las Flores Canyon, two lanes, no homes, no roads up into the hills.
February 22, 2019
The USS Lake Champlain arrived in Malibu for a four-day visit and the Navy and the pier thew a little party.
February 21, 2019
An afternoon of wild weather here at the coast with racing clouds, pounding rain, thunder, lightning, and hail the size of marbles. At one point during the deluge the sun came out and an entire cloud turned into a rainbow.
Here's the bluff at dusk tonight, sun sinking, colors surging, birds calling as they hurried home.
February 20, 2019
Here's Walt, being handsome.
February 19, 2019
Not too surprising that after the rains the ponds at Pepperdine are filled to overflowing. Also pretty great are all the waterfowl who have been dropping by, cormorants and egrets and herons, terns and gulls and plovers, a few geese, who often cause a bit of a ruckus, and some beautiful varieties of ducks, their plumage color-blocked like abstract paintings.
February 18, 2019
I loved the rain, the sound and scent and the relentless abundance of it, but sunlight has been pretty nice, too. And really, can you believe how incredibly green everything is? I swear you can hear things growing.
February 16, 2019
It's not just the clothes and the pier that are from a bygone era. Long before before the oil rigs went in and and the breakwater went up, Long Beach had actual surf.
February 15, 2019
A low-lying low-flying fringe of clouds the other day, wind-borne frontrunners of the newest storm, though with this grand procession of winter weather it's hard to tell whether they're leading or following.
February 14, 2019
Wet animals turn out to be a sub-theme of this blog which, let's face it, is really just a long long loooooooooong love letter to Malibu. Happy Valentines Day!
Wet coyote:
Wet hawk:
Wet hummingbirds:
Wet spiders:
Wet parrots:
And of course, a wet Labrador. (That's the late great Maisie.)
February 13, 2019
The little Labrador doesn't have a very good poker face.
February 12, 2019
Part of the (endless) heartbreak of the Woolsey Fire is that so many of these sweet and beautiful ground-dwelling birds were killed. So it was thrilling to catch a glimpse of several quail families going about their daily business at the Point Dume Headlands.
February 11, 2019
Between cloudbursts yesterday we braved the cold (oh hush) to find the sky above the bluff filled with hawks, four of them, soaring and wheeling and hunting, doing far better than the photog at staying steady and upright in the winter wind. Here's one of them.
February 10, 2019
This is from yesterday as yet another front moved through. I know a lot of you are tired of the rain but after years of drought, in this house we're still loving it.
February 9, 2019
Look north and you'll see PCH doesn't exist yet.
February 8, 2019
Turn your back to PCH and the built world falls away. It's just the brightest blue and green, so vivid it's almost disorienting.
February 7, 2019
We're a week or so away from the annual display. Enough buds and greenery to be heartening, enough plants lost to drought to be heartbreaking.
February 6, 2019
Let's celebrate by looking at wet dogs in raincoats!
February 5, 2019
Eye to eye with a little hawk hunting at the Point Dume headlands.
I love how he dips his head to get a closer look.
February 4, 2019
Looking north from the Point Dume headlands where for one amazing hour, no one else was around.
February 3, 2019
February 2, 2019
Red sky at night followed by red sky at morning, winter like it used to be.
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