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I saw my first devil (other than Trump)
It only took 23 years of going regularly to the San Diego Zoo before I finally saw the Tasmanian Devil. It just doesn’t like people, or maybe it knows when I’m coming by and scurries into its hiding...
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Imagine being kissed by that!
When I was driving for Uber earlier this year, I would get up at 3:30 a.m. and start driving at 4:00. That allowed for some significant long drives from where I live in La Mesa to coastal places like...
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Sunrise, sunset
We have been having beautiful sunrises and sunsets since mid-October. My home office faces east, and, like my wise old grandmother, I get up before the sun does. Thus I see the sunrise every day....
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“Mommy! I’m scared!”
Although it’s been raining all day today here in San Diego, I set out at 6:30 this morning to go to La Jolla to watch the Spring Tide waves crash against the sea wall protecting the Children’s Pool. I...
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Picture of the Moment—Silent Saturday
Occasionally I take a picture for which no words from me are necessary, such as this one. Even then, though, I would want to know when and where the picture was taken. If you do, too, it was taken on...
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Didn’t see a single fox. Sad.
I go to the coastal tidepools at Cabrillo National Monument a couple of times each year, and now that I have a lifetime pass ($10 if you’re 62 or older; price is going up to $80 under Twitler), I will...
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Picture of the Moment—Finest and most bestest ever!
My wise old grandmother had lots of hummingbird feeders throughout the trees in her yard, and ever since I got my hands on an SLR camera in 1966, I have been trying to get a halfway decent picture of a...
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Picture of the Moment—The Gathering
Just a small group of friends enjoying the beautiful weather. I titled this, “The Gathering.” Advertisements Filed under: Fauna, Mother & Father Nature, Nature, Picture of the Moment Tagged:...
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Picture of the Moment—Run! He wants to put us on Facebook! Run!
I like to get action pictures of wildlife. That was difficult until recently. I bought a Tamron 150-600 mm lens and replaced my 9-year-old Tamron 28-300 mm lens with a Tamron 18-300 mm. The 18-300 is...
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Picture of the Moment—Trash by any other name is still trash
Yesterday, when I drove Highway 94 to Tecate to get pictures of the Big Border Wall Baby, I passed a CalTrans maintenance dump where they accumulate rocks, crumbled concrete and asphalt, and items...
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Unattended children
I hope the puppy is just temporary because if your children are unattended, you have other problems that a puppy won’t help, and having a puppy in the family would probably be cruel to the puppy. JMHO....
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Picture of the Moment—Thar she blooms!
For last Friday’s Friday Flower Fiesta, I featured a new plant that now is in my garden, the Stapelia gigantea. It is called the “carrion plant” because its flowers smell like rotting flesh, which is...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—I’m imagining….
I was hiking out in the woods in the boondocks recently when I came upon this: The sign above the door says, “The Imagination Book Club.” This was out in the woods in the boondocks. I’m not sure how...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—Prehistoric creature hiding in flowers
A macro lens allows you to see the prehistoric creature hiding in the flowers, about to nip your nose as you smell them.
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—Super blue blood moon
I think I might have gotten a one-of-a-kind picture of the Super Blue Blood Moon just minutes for the eclipse, and minutes before sunrise here in San Diego started interfering too severely with the...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—Public art
When the tides are extraordinarily low, as they were today, it’s fun to go look at what I call “low tide art,” carvings in the sand banks that’s only visible during these very low tides. Here’s one of...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—I want one!
I want a bubble maker like the one this guy has: Seen at Ocean Beach in San Diego on Saturday, February 3.
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—Meet Coco
I’m the incoming newsletter editor for the San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society (SDCSS) . With over 700 members, it’s the largest chapter of the Cactus & Succulent Society of America. So I was...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—The very rare Agave utiliensii
The city of San Diego, as well as its suburbs, love to paint their streetside utility boxes. I’m not complaining. I love ’em, and I’m always on the lookout for the coolest of the cool ones. Utility...
View ArticlePicture of the Moment—Itsy bitsy, teeny tiny, little, & beautiful
It’s amazing how having a great macro lens for one’s camera causes one to see things that one has never seen before, like these itsy bitsy teeny tiny little beautiful flowers.
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