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Friday Foto: Intense Sound Signal

Photographed on the Maine coast in December 2011. The sign was on the side of a lighthouse.

posted 20 January 2012 in Photos. 2 comments

Friday Foto: L.A. River

Photographed this morning on the bike path next to the L.A. River. The river, for once, was not totally dry. But it’s still goofy to have a bike path between a concrete channel and a major freeway–it feels like a parody of the great outdoors.

posted 30 December 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Friday Foto: L. Ron Hubbard’s Winter Wonderland

Photographed recently on Hollywood Boulevard. Only in Los Angeles. Thanks for reading; I hope your 2011 was all it should be, and that your 2012 will be even more.

posted 24 December 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Friday Foto: Acorn Woodpecker

Before a recent trip to Santa Barbara, I had never heard of the acorn woodpecker, which drills holes in trees and telephone poles and then methodically fills them with acorns. (I wonder if acorn woodpeckers then have epic battles with raiding squirrels.) Below, a picture of the resulting acorn treasure trove, which looks like an […]

posted 18 November 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Occupy Maiden Lane

I lived for many years on Broadway, about two blocks away from Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street protesters have encamped. (Although Zuccotti Park itself is not familiar to me–I believe it was fenced up and under renovation for most of the years I lived near it.) In recent weeks, Occupy Wall Street’s winding, […]

posted 17 October 2011 in Photos, Self-reflexive. no comments yet

Friday Foto: Baby Pigeon

Photographed in Brooklyn in late August. I lived in New York City for almost twenty years and never saw a baby pigeon–apparently, one has to be visiting.

posted 16 September 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Friday Foto: World Trade Center Site

Photographed in 2005. Eventually I was able to think of the WTC site as a construction project rather than a mass grave–but I never really got used to the immense high-security hole in the ground.

posted 9 September 2011 in Photos, Uncategorized. no comments yet

Friday Foto: Dodger Stadium

Taken on the field yesterday, about 25 minutes before the Dodgers started playing the Mets.

posted 8 July 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Friday Foto: Tim Burton’s Blues

Photographed in an atrium at LACMA.

posted 24 June 2011 in Photos. no comments yet

Friday Foto: Papillon

Two and a half years after my last butterfly photo, it seems like time for another one. This one was taken in March, in Runyon Canyon.

posted 27 May 2011 in Photos. no comments yet