dayboat journal

posted on Facebook by a teacher colleague who is Native American, Rose Kreuger Painted Lady butterfly  John Walker Intere...

Balboa Park rests in a low area of the San Fernando Valley, the empty lakebed and flood plain for the dammed Los Angeles River, controlled b...

My bird book has sightings going back to 2015, and I know I've been birding in the Dam since  since we moved to Valley Village in 1995. ...

  "Concrete Cabin", 1994 Unité d"Habitation, landmark Le Corbusier Brutalist apartment block in Marseilles Like discovering S...

It wasn't our first superbloom.  Living in Southern California since 1958, sumptuous flora streak the myth with brilliant orange, warm a...

The Garden Years: the 50's A small town Midwestern childhood gifted me with the assumption that everyone had a garden, like having storm...

  9-11-2022   Today as I worked on my infuriating sprinkler system, I saw a Painted Lady. The first one this year.  I remember the wonder of...