He brought beauty to this mad world.

www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dmitri-hvorostovsk...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1jUiXOJpo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjPbkd_UlY

With Anna Netrebko:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SwumVFUMBg

With Kaufmann:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MwnHpLV48

Ethereal Orchids floating on the 8th floor looking forward to having more natural light soon...

They didn't always build 8 story malls

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I liked this view because it shows the parking lot where we parked to begin our hike (if you look realy closely) A fire in 2013 combined with a drought left the scenery a bit barren, but despite that, it was nice to see nature making a slow but beautiful comeback. And the ocean views were fantastic! You can also see a small portion of the Pacific Coast Highway. articles.latimes.com/2013/may/23/news/la-trb-california-p...

. . . Pray for Paris & Notre Dame . . . 💔 . . . exercise compassion . . . ❤ . . . practice kindness every day - not just on holidays ...

www.facebook.com/Notre.Dame.Secrete/photos/a.290700548417...

. . . Photos © WEB/Media

16.o4 www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/04/after-fire-photos-insid...

• www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/laser-scan...

• youtu.be/jAi29udFMKw

17.o4 • www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-notre-dame-fire-rebuild-sc...

😢 ... 😢 ... • www.facebook.com/doctrinArchitecturae/photos/a.1374494322...

• www.facebook.com/doctrinArchitecturae/

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• PARIS 1900 • www.facebook.com/Paris-1900-1559036904334128/

• www.facebook.com/pg/Paris-1900-1559036904334128/photos/?r...

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(for my friend Márcia_Marton)

See her photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/marcia_marton/

Yesterday I went to watch a movie called "Your Name". It's a Japanese animation film and now showing in major cinemas in Sydney. Very impressive graphics (2D anime but much better than my photos).

A big comet split in the air and dropped on a small village in Japan and destroyed whole the village.... ending was not that bad.

After that I dropped in on a bridge and saw this sun, hitting on the building. It was like OMG@@

Movie Info: Japan's No. 1 film is playing in L.A. Here's why you should see it by LA Times

I remember the Day...

Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“An Old Document”

June 12noon hour. Happy horses enjoying their lunch under the cloudy sky courtesy of Tropical Storm Blanca. The storm did bring us a little rain, not enough to cure our California Drought, though. I hope these horses have a secret pond they can go to for some water.

Thank you for your patience, my Flickr friends. I'm working on a project for my family and it will take a few months to complete, so I'll be on and off until then.

For the hours

More about thehours

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Daughter's camera - Ft. Morgan Rd. Gulf Shores, AL

Explore #333 - October 26, 2007

Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade

Activists for birds and wildlife

lensbaby used

This article has some great images of this bridge being built. I have found some areas that this bridge is right up against things like this great old brick building.

www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-22/photos-sixth-...

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

The Racetract , Death Valley

www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rocks-move-death-val...

Mardi Gras, 2008!

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Happy Sliders Sunday!

For the ”Nature Protection Challenge” at Awake – Art for a Cause

Several shots from a recent visit to the Mono Lake area in the Eastern Sierra. Like other delicate ecosystems in the world, this region is threatened by the effects of climate change:

Eastern Sierra Audubon Society

esaudubon.org/conservation/climate_change/at-risk_species...

Sierra Nevada Alliance

sierranevadaalliance.com/programs/regional-climate-change/

Caltrout.org

caltrout.org/map-location/eastern-sierra-regional-climate...

Mono Lake Committee

www.monolake.org/mlc/restoration

University of California

snrs.ucmerced.edu/natural-history/climate

News Stories:

www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/06/29/california-sie...

www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-warming-drought-2016...

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Part of a tribute I did for Julius Shulman the day he died....

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Leelou is enchanted within Urban Lights sculpture by Chris Burden at the entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art!

www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-lacma-urban-l...

youtu.be/Dn5Pbug5nRw

Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells

Owens Lake,and the Southern Eastern Sierras, Inyo County, California,USA.

A small glimpse of the Perry Cardoza Land Art Project which is part of the Owens Lake dust mitigation and rewatering project.

These are part of artificial islands nicknamed the whitecaps, the explanation can be found in the first link below.

A couple of interesting articles -

www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/owens-lake-land-art-nuvis-lad...

And -

www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-lake-birds-2...

Lots of Bulbuls at the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens these days. They have an interesting history at the Huntington - read about it below

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-29-ga-25787-story...

Cetatile Ponorului: iesirea spre Dolina 2 si Marele Portal (74m inaltime, 30m latime)

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

The John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a neo-Mayan (Mayan revival) residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, by Lloyd Wright, aka Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sowden_House

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_John_Sowden

Lloyd Wright (1890-1978)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Wright

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Wright

Marijuana entrepreneur sells Lloyd Wright’s neo-Mayan masterpiece for $6.16 million www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2022-07-01/mar...

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Taken out my kitchen window.

Explore #230 - August 7, 2008

Actually got this one by surprise with my zoom lens. Thought it would be fuzzy; but came out better than I thought it would.

Hated that Explore didn't think it was good enough for most Interestingness

Fellow member of the Flickr Bird Brigade

Activists for birds and wildlife

Los Angeles Zoo

Photo won 1st place in Animals Catergory

for the 2008 LA Times Photo Contest

Check it out

Here

and

Here

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

The end of a day of storms here on the gulf coast. Mother Nature's Painting Again!

Orange Beach, Alabama USA

Explore #393 - September 15, 2007

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Taken at Owens Lake on an interesting and educational hike along the eastern shore near Keeler, California.

A small glimpse of the Perry Cardoza Land Art Project which is part of the Owens Lake dust mitigation and rewatering project.

These are part of artificial islands nicknamed the whitecaps, the explanation can be found in the first link below.

A couple of interesting articles -

www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/owens-lake-land-art-nuvis-lad...

And -

www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-lake-birds-2...

The Oriental Gardens at Bellingrath Gardens!

Loved the reflection!

www.bellingrath.org/

Please view large size for detail

from ongoing project "Riversystem"

A brief description in a L.A. Times blog post here.

Spell it however you like, we are told. It’s an informal name!

Thanks The humid South's favorite landscape tree -- surprisingly, thriving in temperate Berkeley, as a street tree!! Four of them near campus.

latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2011/09/crape-myrtle-t...

Speaking of LA photographs, take a look at this new collection of 19th century photos...

[www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0205-marquez-collection-20140...]

This Red-whiskered Bulbul was seen at the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens. See below for some interesting info from a 1985 article in the LA Times. The Bulbul started life in Southern California at the Huntington in 1968 !!

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-29-ga-25787-story...

BY MARY BARBER

DEC. 29, 1985 12 AM PT

TIMES STAFF WRITER

For the first time since it took up residency in the Huntington Library’s Botanical Gardens 18 years ago, the red-whiskered bulbul is temporarily safe from government officials determined to eliminate it.

The decorative little bird’s life has been spared in a showdown between the gardens director and state and county agents who had been shooting to kill on government orders.

Red-whiskered bulbuls, found in the United States only at Huntington Botanical Gardens and in Florida, are on the state’s “A-Pest” list, a designation that targets them for eradication. They qualify because they are not a native bird and are a fruit-eating species considered a threat to agriculture.

But now the birds have defenders who argue that bulbuls have not lived up to their menacing reputation and should be allowed to live happily in the confined habitat they chose in 1968.

On the couch watching television, maybe the Rose Bowl or something else which I don't remember now when I glanced out the window to see this. I wasn't going to do anything with the shot until I saw this article January 11, 2020 in the Los Angeles Times about SoCal Winter Sunsets www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-01-10/southern-calif...