Weather? In LA? Really, how silly do they think I am? Wait. What’s that? Thunder?!?! Here?!?
Radar graphics courtesy of Weather Undergrounds WunderMap
Oct. 1, 2011 the Santa Barbara Zoo will be hosting a Science Day event. Friends of the Island Fox will be one of many community presenters with family-friendly science-based activities. The goal is to offer teachers a variety of science activities that can be replicated in the classroom.
For more information see the website www.islandfox.org. Teachers and their families can get into the Zoo free with preregistration.
Friends of the Island Fox
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National Park Service
Movies by Moonlight
Paramount Ranch
September 10, 2011 Saturday, 7:30pm â 9:30pm
Beau Geste (1939) Starring Gary cooper and directed by William Wellman, this melodramatic and high-adventure tale, with classic desert settings, was shot in part at Paramount Ranch. Join a ranger at 6pm for a short hike to the actual location. For more info: 805-370-230
Joe and I regularly practice archery and thrown weapons with our local Altavia members at Woodly Park in the Sepulveda Basin. These are a few pictures from last Sunday’s practice.
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via Free Youth Program – Encino Velodrome.
For the last several days I have been back in Ohio for the kick-off of the Saturday6 program. I added 1 day to my trip in order to spend some time with my family that still lives here. I moved to Los Angeles 25 years ago and don’t get back very often. We were on our way to visit my Aunt and Uncle when it started bucketing down. It has been a very wet Spring this year and we even had some flooding along our route. I decided to capture a short piece of our ride and by accident an Amish buggy came trotting by in the other direction.
Watch “Rainy Day in Ohio” – iPod Ready Format
After a good year for rain, like this one, the California Poppy bloom, along with other wildflowers should be quite dramatic. You can keep abreast of what is happening by visiting the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve SNR web site or calling their hotline at (661) 724-1180.
Here is there latest report…
Latest Poppy Reserve Research Field Notes and Observations
3-10-11: Mary Wilson
Antelope Trail North Loop
Poppies are just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, and slender keel fruit.Antelope Trail South Loop
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, and slender keel fruit.Lightning Bolt Trail
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, bush lupine, slender keel fruit, lacey phacelia, red maids, Western for-get-me-not, a tiny for-get-me-not, sun cups, hairy lotus, cream cups and rattlesnake weed.Poppy Trail North Loop Trail
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, slender keel fruit, fringe pod, wild onions, red maids, sun cups, gold fields and owl’s clover.Poppy Trail South Loop
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, goldfields, silver puffs and slender keel fruit.Tehachapi Vista Point Trail
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, goldfields, pygmy-leaved lupine, slender keel fruit and grape soda lupine.Valley Vista Point
Poppies just starting to bloom.
Look for blossoms on filaree, fiddleneck, pygmy-leaved lupine, and slender keel fruit, forget-me-nots and evening snow.3-10-11: Mike Powell
I think the best trails right now are the North Poppy Loop trail (it has some, already, impressive displays of owl’s clover, the cream cups, goldfields and a few poppy blossoms among others). The northern segment of the trail leaving the parking lot (it has some nice displays of forget-me-nots and, late in the afternoon, evening snow and a few poppy blossoms). The last is the Tehachapi Vista trail with its grape soda lupine, goldfields and some poppy blossoms.
Just saw this announcement from the Museum of the San Fernando Valley — Douglas
North Hollywood “NoHo” Historic Walking Tour
Please join us on Saturday, January 22nd from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. to learn about real cowboys, pioneer families, movie television and recording stars, the Spanish conquest, Mexican ranchos, great steam trains, vast ranches and orchards, land barons, wars, architecture, and much more!
Tour highlights include:
RSVP: 1-818-347-9665 or email at events@TheMuseumSFV.org
Please leave name, address and phone number
Cost: $10 per person suggested donation
Parking: Street and metered parking in area
Tour meets at Amelia Earhart Statue; NW corner of Tujunga St. & Magnolia Blvd. (at corner of Library)
Please visit us on the web at www.theMuseumSFV.org.
Thank you to sponsor Universal City/North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
A short montage of scenes from the Antelope Valley Indian Museum, a California State Park near Palmdale, California.
We were out in at the Woodley Park Archery Range this evening when a pop-up thunderstorm rolled across the San Fernando Valley. The rainbows were quite striking, as was the sunset as the clouds rolled west.. The iPhone really doesn’t do the rainbows justice, but it is nice to have collected a few movies.
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