I don't know a lot about city planning, but I'm thinking that when you're relying on the benevolence of the local gas station to light the area, you've got that wattage down as far as it goes.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday Night Lights
Long Beach, like most cities in California, is currently in pretty desperate financial straits. The local paper recently ran a feature about the city budget, inviting readers to submit their suggestions. One reader offered that the city streets are too brightly lit, and that money could be saved by turning the wattage down.
I don't know a lot about city planning, but I'm thinking that when you're relying on the benevolence of the local gas station to light the area, you've got that wattage down as far as it goes.
I don't know a lot about city planning, but I'm thinking that when you're relying on the benevolence of the local gas station to light the area, you've got that wattage down as far as it goes.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Anyone have any idea what this is?
Whatever it is, it’s moving with the current.
I think we’ll stay out of the water for a while.
No, really, it *is* a bird...
We really never know what we're going to see outside our windows...
The birdwatcher in the house has informed me that it's a "he" and a "kestrel," also known as a "sparrow hawk" (because he eats them, along with big bugs, lizards, and mice). Luckily, he's not big enough to be here for the cats.
The birdwatcher in the house has informed me that it's a "he" and a "kestrel," also known as a "sparrow hawk" (because he eats them, along with big bugs, lizards, and mice). Luckily, he's not big enough to be here for the cats.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Labor Day Saturday can only mean one thing in Long Beach Harbor!
A refreshing sail into the haze!
Luckily, things cleared for our boaters in the afternoon…
Speaking of boats, it seems to me that Labor Day is one of three long weekends a year (Memorial Day and the Fourth of July being the other two) that serve as the primary justification for the expense of having a boat.
So why are so many of them still sitting at the dock?
A refreshing sail into the haze!
Luckily, things cleared for our boaters in the afternoon…
Speaking of boats, it seems to me that Labor Day is one of three long weekends a year (Memorial Day and the Fourth of July being the other two) that serve as the primary justification for the expense of having a boat.
So why are so many of them still sitting at the dock?
Saturday, September 5, 2009
It's a Bird, It's a Plane!!
Nighttime shots have been suspended until my newly ordered tripod gets here. Will Amazon into expediency for me, ok?
We have a local blimp that takes off from Signal Hill and pedals the wares of advertisers (I'm not sure how a genetic testing company determines that the way to spend their advertising dollars is on blimp ads, but I'm sure their people are smarter than me) to the crowded beach below…
Or not…
Not that we don't enjoy watching it, but do you think this form of advertising does its advertisers any good?
We have a local blimp that takes off from Signal Hill and pedals the wares of advertisers (I'm not sure how a genetic testing company determines that the way to spend their advertising dollars is on blimp ads, but I'm sure their people are smarter than me) to the crowded beach below…
Or not…
Not that we don't enjoy watching it, but do you think this form of advertising does its advertisers any good?
Friday, September 4, 2009
The Hollywood Hills are Burning (again)...
In September, southern California catches fire.
This year, it's a 140,150 acre fire blazing in the San Gabriel wilderness. It's burned through the area occupied by Camp Hi-Hill, the Long Beach Unified School District's outdoor science camp in the Angeles National Forest (no students were at the camp--perhaps the one positive side to rampant budget cuts). Pasadena and Sierra Madre have been put on alert. So far, the blaze has killed two LA County firefighters, destroyed 64 homes, three commercial buildings and 49 outbuildings. It's cost a bankrupt state $27 million to battle.
But I have to admit, from a safe distance, there's a certain beauty to it...
I know, we need a tripod...
This year, it's a 140,150 acre fire blazing in the San Gabriel wilderness. It's burned through the area occupied by Camp Hi-Hill, the Long Beach Unified School District's outdoor science camp in the Angeles National Forest (no students were at the camp--perhaps the one positive side to rampant budget cuts). Pasadena and Sierra Madre have been put on alert. So far, the blaze has killed two LA County firefighters, destroyed 64 homes, three commercial buildings and 49 outbuildings. It's cost a bankrupt state $27 million to battle.
But I have to admit, from a safe distance, there's a certain beauty to it...
I know, we need a tripod...
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Someone screwed up...
The local seedy hotel had a fire today.
Pop Quiz: Cigarette or hotplate accident?
Pop Quiz: Cigarette or hotplate accident?
Sunrise, Sunset...
"They say the smog is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets." - Get Shorty
Well, the particulates must have aligned perfectly here in Long Beach:
Well, the particulates must have aligned perfectly here in Long Beach:
Things look different from 250 feet...
We lived in Long Beach for a year on a narrow, one-way street in an apartment that had a “city lights view” (translation: has windows) and a “peek-a-boo ocean view” (translation: if all those damn buildings weren’t in the way, the ocean would be right there, I swear!). Then, like so many other locations in southern California, Long Beach’s rental market became extremely depressed. And so, for the same amount of money we’d been paying for the “city lights view” and the “peek-a-boo ocean view,” we were able to move 250 feet in the air.
Things look different from up here. This blog is a photo journal of how…
Things look different from up here. This blog is a photo journal of how…
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