January 31, 2019
Throwback Thursday: Vintage postcard of the City of Angels in 1873. That's Spring Street down the middle, along with Main Street and something called 'Fort Street'. And yes, a bit of Marie Kondo-ing has been taking place around here.
January 30, 2019
Daisy says to hell with it all and hits the snooze button.
January 29, 2019
As we flirt with a chance-of-rain weather system that may be headed our way, the ocean here moves into winter mode.
January 28, 2019
Remnants of today's 'red sky at morning' sunrise.
January 27, 2019
Like a campfire in a vase. (Well, a jelly jar.)
January 26, 2019
LA Pie Co. and Original Spanish Kitchen, long gone.
January 25, 2019
Sun and wind and the Pacific so bright you have to squint.
January 24, 2019
In 1902, when you could only reach Santa Monica during a low tide:
And a few years later:
January 23, 2019
Finally, a chance to use this photo of Daisy trying to control her human with her mind. (Food food food walk walk food food coyotes head scratch.)
January 22, 2019
Post-fire even the most developed neighborhoods in Malibu have seen an influx of wild animals, including raptors.
January 21, 2019
A duck got too close and the goose quickly made his feelings clear.
January 20, 2019
The post-rain ponds are full and the shore birds are back, fishing and sunbathing and keeping a wary eye out for photogs.
January 19, 2019
As the license plate (and the frame) say, she's a Malibu gal.
January 18, 2019
January 17, 2019
Relief from stormy grey-on-grey comes only at night, light fractured by mist and rain, a shattered and grudging rainbow.
January 16, 2019
Walt takes his work as a coyote spotter very seriously.
January 15, 2019
No snow-covered mountains for us here at the coast. Instead, it's freshly-trimmed palm trees backed by a scrim of storm clouds.
January 14, 2019
January 13, 2019
No parking when we arrived so no chance to check out the progress of the giant coreopsis, which will bloom sometime in February. The clouds and colors on the horizon, however, were spectacular.
January 12, 2019
Everything about this latest round of rain, from the predicted procession of chilly storms to the fog bank obscuring the mountain passes is, for the first time in several years, old-school Southern California winter.
January 11, 2019
Crows roosting at dusk in Bluffs Park during a break in the rain.
January 10, 2019
Something about the shapes of the clouds and the tilt of the sunlight and today felt like a walk through a painting.
January 9, 2019
And Daisy wants you to know that post-Christmas groceries are not the least bit (no bacon) interesting.
January 6, 2019
Everything everywhere, including color, goes quiet after the rain.
January 5, 2019
With rain on the way it's easy to decide that it's time to un-decorate the tree, which for weeks has majestically supported scores of ornaments and hundreds of incandescent (sorry, LEDs, but your colors are not quite right) lights. The removing is always faster than the placing and just as the storm arrived, the tree returned to its spot outside, soon sparkling again, but this time with winter rain.
It was beautiful while it lasted and we look forward to the Monterey pine's next indoor visit, just 11 months from now.
January 4, 2019
Not quite willing yet to let go of the glow and colors of the solstice season.
January 3, 2019
Yes, many of the burn areas here are turning green again but so far it's due to the return of non-native grasses. Whether the oaks and sage and sycamores, the vervain and penstemon and blue-eyed grass, the cacti and clovers and phlox and wild roses and hundreds of other California natives can recover from a wildfire that burned so hot it literally denuded the mountains, burned them to a degree that has shocked virtually everyone, remains to be seen.
January 2, 2019
And here at Casa de LOUD! we're celebrating with a vintage video of baby Walt.
January 1, 2019
In addition to the freshest calendar page of the year, today brought a pod of whales (you can seethe tiny white puffs of their exhales) on the horizon. We strolled with them along the bluff, watched until they vanished south.
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