March 31, 2020
Surfrider Beach and the Malibu pier, deserted.
March 30, 2020
With all of the parks and beaches closed down (but still filled with out-of-towners who outpace the LA County Sheriffs' enforcement efforts) we've been heading up into the more remote fire roads we know, the only places left to safely walk the dogs.
March 28, 2020
A friend sent this photo a few days ago and you can either laugh or cry. Or both.
March 27, 2020
The post-rain green season is hitting its peak and the dogs are lucky enough not to notice all of the missing oaks and the ailing oaks and the strange new outline of the Santa Monica mountains, still unsettling nearly two-and-a-half years post-fire.
March 26, 2020
The last of the clouds moved through yesterday. Weather reports all point to warmer days on the way and right now, here at Casa de (not-so) LOUD! it's blue skies in all directions.
March 25, 2020
Honestly? The exclamation point seems inappropriate right now. But also, thank goodness for a world with dogs in it.
March 24, 2020
A little bit of rain here today, but most of it out over the Pacific.
March 23, 2020
Clouds and sun and wind and cold but no rain.
March 22, 2020
This was in Bluffs Park the other day. We've seen him before and I think he's staking out his territory for the spring mating season.
March 21, 2020
This was during the surprise storm last week, but 60 seconds of Solstice Creek in the rain is very soothing right about now.
March 20, 2020
Here's the sunrise in Paradise Cove on May 2, 2012.
March 19, 2020
Here's Bluffs Park this afternoon in between rain showers. We were the only ones there.
March 17, 2020
Some blue sky between the storms.
March 9, 2020
The Point Dume headlands used to turn gold in February, the thousands of giant coreopsis plants a blaze of blooms. Then came a decade of drought-fueled attrition with fewer and fewer flowers each year. Despite decent rainfall last winter, it seems the damage is done. A sparse bloom this year, the living plants saving their energy, the dead ones an elegy to times past.
March 8, 2020
I went to the Point Dume headlands last week and the giant coreopsis bloom was so spotty, it really threw me. So I put away the camera and let the blog go dark for a few days because sometimes, between climate change and development and wildfire damage, you just need a moment to catch your breath.
I've got some shots of the giant coreopsis that I'll post tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's the view from Mulholland Highway yesterday, the remnants of a storm that passed us by.
March 2, 2020
March 1, 2020
A lot of sky drama but not too much rain. This winter's rainy season, which had such a promising start, has taken a sharp into alarming.
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