At last, some footage to demonstrate the potential in this methodology! (See this post for the other six steps.) Also, at last I have fulfilled my obligation as a citizen of the 21st century – I have posted a cat video to YouTube.
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A Stark Beauty
Wildfires can be so destructive and at one time I hated to look at a recently burned hillside. However, I have come to realize that a burned slope has a unique, stark beauty.
The Station fire was a large wildfire in the San Gabriel Mountains (near my southern CA home) in 2009.
The fire burned hot and fast and the slopes looked like this afterward.
But, a few months later, each of those moonscape skeletons already showed regrowth.
Within a couple years, the hills were back to looking like this.
Of course, part of my appreciation may come from knowing that around here, the hill likely holds native chaparral plants which are adapted to wildfire and usually bounce back, no matter how dead they initially seem.
Alligator Bubbles
Everywhere in Florida there are Beware of Alligators warning signs but after several trips to Florida with no ‘gator sightings, I was despondent. So the family took us to a long walkway inserted into the Everglades, and I saw this alligator – dive below the surface. See him? Right where those rings are.
Alligator evidence.
Note to other travelers: we visited the Everglades in late summer. Mosquito season. Not recommended. (With three applications of bug spray, wearing long sleeves and pants, we got away easy with only a few thousand bites. Each.)
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
‘Shrooms with Fern
2D Sand Sculpture
Decorative Graffiti
I want my garage doors to look like these!
Lower Manhattan – left door
September 2012 – right door
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Friendship Circle
Our recently departed cat Boink and our dog Shadow enjoying some couch time together.
Sun on the couch.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Froth and Flow
Incoming surf overtops a sinuous retaining wall.
East Beach, Santa Barbara, at sunset
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Too Close? Or Just Close Enough?
Summer in Chicago. The sculpture is Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor.
When you get close enough to this…
The same view, under scrutiny…
… it looks like this!
See me? I’m in the middle of the bright bottommost triangle, head titled to my right. To my left is a tall person with a camera. That’s my daughter, who took this spectacular shot.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting – But the City Remains
My favorite hike takes me through the chaparral-covered hills of Griffith Park but maintains a view (smog allowing) of downtown Los Angeles in the valley below. The weather and the seasons change but from this distance the city looks constant.
A fall afternoon.
Moonset at sunrise.
Early spring wildflowers.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
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