"Howdy, neighbor!"

#ducks #turtles #birds #waterfowl #nature #pond

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Last week I did a simple walk around the local marsh preserve. There's still some water! It hasn't all dried up yet!

Most years, the ponds fill up during winter rains, then dry out over the course of the summer and fall. Some years they dry out completely, but there's usually at least *some* water left in the lowest part of the marsh toward late fall.

#marsh #hiking #nature #California #plants #flowers #florespondence #bloomscrolling

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"Wilderness Park" was constructed to be a suburban idea of wilderness camping in the late 1970s or early 1980s -- on a former missile site, of all places -- but local conservation groups have been restoring native plants in (other) parts of the park over the last few years.

There are houses *just out of view* on the other side of that fence.

#woods #hiking #wilderness #park #trees #path #ivy #nature #california

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The same park with the ducks has a small botanical garden in one corner. This pollinator garden seems to be working.

#garden #bees #flowers #poppies #bloomscrolling #florespondence #pollen

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Yeah, #RandysDonuts in #Inglewood has been done before, but I figured I'd try my hand (lens?) at it.

#ProgrammaticArchitecture #donuts #GiantDonut #weird #LosAngeles #sunny

I was surprised to find even this much of a pay phone left standing yesterday. Having just re-watched The Matrix, I thought I'd tint it green and call it "No Exit."

#PayPhone #graffiti #obsolete #TheMatrix

Probably an #EveningPrimrose of some sort, by the side of the road.

#wildflowers #flowers #yellow #florespondence #bloomscrolling

"Still Alive," take two. I bumped up the contrast and saturation, and I think that makes it work better, at least on a small display.

#plants #florespondence #bloomscrolling #hedge

A colander as a #PinholeCamera

Update (now with words!): I didn’t arrange another road trip to see today’s total eclipse like we took in 2017 (which was amazing, by the way!). But we had clear skies, so we broke out the eclipse glasses from 2017 again. And it turns out that yes, a colander *does* make a fun instrument for observing a solar eclipse!

Also at my blog: some thoughts on just how common eclipses are, planetwide, though they're rare in any specific location - and how that fits with historical takes on how they happen and what they mean.

https://hyperborea.org/journal/2024/04/plural-of-eclipse/

#eclipse #solarEclipse #improvise #history

Chickweed flower spotted at the base of the guy wire for a telephone pole.

#florespondence #bloomscrolling #flowerw