


Lopez Cyn, the Land of Contrasts
NEW *IMPROVED* THOUSANDTH POST!
[Patient Reader, I took a good month off posting; not that it was a good month. Besides civilization and its discontents, there were tech troubles, with software and hard; I’ll spare you the gory details. Consider that I deleted that series of geology posts that had been leading the View, unknowing, towards a brilliant idea. Recall how, marveling at recent changes in the land, and inspired by the synergy of Pres. Biden’s initiative in protecting public lands, I proposed a Nat’l Geologic Monument for the upper LA River watershed. It is an important idea, one that, upon re-View, deserves a more serious appeal than my slapdash bloggery. So, watch this space for the link to a new glossy website specifically promoting the SFVNatGeoMon, soon to appear, with the View’s epic photography.]
Meanwhile (thank Thoth and Damey), via a new set of tin-cans-on-strings rigged to the old conch shell, hot-wired to the rusty TV aerial up on the roof, the View is Back. Well, why not give the New Optimism a try? Trashing a few gloomy public-affairs posts, I have re-set to Post 1,000, and offer this carefree album of Views Iβve had but youβve missed, this Spring, 2021.

Ceanothus, California lilac 

Warty-stem ceanothus 


Abutilon palmeri… 
Indian mallow 

Minersβ lettuce! Claytonia perfoliata 
Choreopsis at Pacoima 

mosses and lichens inhabit a moist geo-hydro-vent through the rocks at Elsmere Cyn.

buckthorns 

Yerba santa 


Phlox! 


White sage 


buckwheat and deerweed 


Dodgers Stadium 


Philippeβs βThe Originalβ indoors newly re-open 
But we chose outdoor dining! 
Then a stroll through Chinatown… 

….like people!





Life is skittles, life is beer!







You went among people!! Unprincipled passages of grossness!
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Missed you. Glad you’re back.
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OH THANK GOD!
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glad to see the View is back to Viewing π
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