Category Archives: Occasional Daily Weather Report
Occasional Daily Weather Report 5/18/11
A late-season storm unexpectedly watered the garden for me the past couple nights. In mid-May, this is a huge help. Such a boost to plants budding up for summer, like this Geranium ‘Dragon Heart.’* For this storm to reach us, … Continue reading
Los Angeles in January
This was the scene from the 25th floor conference room I worked in today. Temps were in the mid 70′s. That might as well be Janus doing the back stroke on this balmy day in the month of January, the … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, Occasional Daily Weather Report
Tagged January, Janus, Los Angeles, Roman god
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Memories of Rain
I didn’t get around to re-watching Blade Runner for the zillionth time the other night, that gorgeous cinematic meditation on memory. (“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”) But these record-breaking rainstorms are doing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Blade Runner, Los Angeles County rainfall
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Another Seattle Export?
The usual state of affairs, I’m told, is Southern Californian hordes invading the Pacific Northwest, or at least such was the case before the great real estate unraveling after 2008. This past week proves that Los Angeles can stay home … Continue reading
Where Was The Sun?
One of those drizzly, grey days where one mumbles phrases from Conan Doyle’s The Musgrave Ritual: ‘Where was the sun?’ ‘Over the oak.’ ‘Where was the shadow?’ ‘Under the elm.’ Not a bad day to keep to the couch and … Continue reading