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Spring Forward

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  • 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 I’ve had but you’ve missed, this Spring, 2021.

  • Ceanothus, California lilac
  • Warty-stem ceanothus
  • Abutilon palmeri…
  • Indian mallow
  • Miners’ 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
  • Philippe’s ‘The Original’ indoors newly re-open
  • But we chose outdoor dining!
  • Then a stroll through Chinatown…
  • ….like people!
  • Life is skittles, life is beer!