On May 19th, 2012, DEEP CREEK HOT SPRINGS…
…was the destination for a last-minute impulsive day trip – having enviously heard stories from friends of leisurely days spent there over the years; so heading north on…
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On May 16th, 2012, LEO CARRILLO STATE BEACH…
…was always one of my favorite city escapes when I first moved to LA from NYC in 1999, when everything was all California Dreaming newness to me, which…
On May 14th, 2012, RUNYON CANYON…
..the scenic Hollywood Hills / Santa Monica Mountains park popular with fit youngish Angelenos in the ‘industry’ is not a place I get to visit very often, but…
On May 13th, 2012, BOOKS BY CARLOS MOTTA…
…Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (2011) and We Who Feel Differently (2012) – by artist-activist friend, and contemporary queer culture instigator, raconteur, organizer, and editor –…
On May 12th, 2012, MATILIJA POPPIES…
…or Romneya coulteri, or fried-egg flower, are the towering white petaled and yellow native Californians whose drama is greeting visitors to the Theodore Payne Foundation right now (the…
On May 11th, 2012, CRESCENT CITY: A HYPEROPERA…
…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by…
On May 10th, 2012, PEA HARVEST…
…has been on my mind since I first noticed some of those pods plumping up a few weeks ago, and this afternoon I have the gumption to hunt…
On May 9th, 2012, L.A. SUNSET LANDING…
…was a welcoming amber view back to the city last night, just able to glimpse my little mound of a hill out the window through the hazy amber…
On May 8th, 2012, TAXIING BY THE ENTERPRISE…
…was a pretty cool thing to see as we made our way down the tarmac and spied the space shuttle casually hanging out on the back of a…
On May 7th, 2012, FAREWELL OUR ORANGE DOME…
…or F.O.O.D., was the title given to the final public event of our Princeton Student Colony, which consisted of a variety of activities throughout the afternoon, but the…
On May 5th, 2012, ANNOUNCING THE LENARD FAMILY RESIDENCE…
…as the site for the Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden #12: Budapest, Hungary to be planted over the weekend of June 2nd – commissioned by Blood Mountain Foundation…
On May 4th, 2012, VEG ON THE ROOF…
…in their crowded bed – lovingly raked, graded, laid out, and sprinkled with compost just this winter – is dusty green, bright green, lettuce green, strawberry green, onion…
On May 3rd, 2012, TRIANGLE FRAMED PINE TREE…
…out the geodesic dome window from bed this morning is reminding me of Italian days.
May 2nd, 2012, “RECONQUERIR LES RUES”…
…or “Reconquering the Streets” by Nicolas Soulier is the great looking book about strategies for re-humanizing and re-claiming our urban roads, with examples from Europe and around the…
On May 1st, 2012, PEAS, PEAS, PEAS…
…yes, yes, yes.
On April 30th, 2012, PIECING TOGETHER LOS ANGELES: AN ESTHER MCCOY READER…
…is the book by Susan Morgan that finally takes on the legacy of this influential woman – often overlooked in the supposedly manly era of testosterone fueled modern…
On April 29th, 2012, A CROCHETED RUG…
…of old clothes from local friends is a new test at home (in shades of brown and a bit of orange for the brown with orange kitchen) with…
On April 28th, 2012, A ROOFTOP GARDEN REPORT…
…while looking back at January 16, March 2, and April 7th updates gives me new appreciation for the speed of dirt to wild native fields and dense veg…
On April 27th, 2012, CARDOONS…
…or Cynara cardunculus, are found wildly making their way all over my L.A. hill, and I do my best to encourage their big-leaved purple-thistle-flowered towering drama – and one…
On April 26th, 2012, JUPITER’S BEARD…
…or Centranthus ruber, has been creeping around the gardens here for years, looking great and flowering and continually coming back with little encouragement or even a drop of…