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T hat would be the Brown Recluse spider , ha very ha. So many years...! So many years I've spent patiently explaining that your aunt i...

Yes, it's hard for the dogs to stay put, what with the fun-house floors and all. They keep me awake all night with their rolling from o...

My best girl ever takes a snooze at the cabin. Labor Day weekend, 2010.

A ccording to a nice phone person in Assemblymember Monning's office as of 7:35 or so. I sure hope this is the final stake through the h...

In the San Bernardino Mountains, looking north towards Big Bear Lake from the high country along Forest Road 2N10. Click photos to emb...

D anger Pug takes care of navigation as we prowl the forest roads.

More from the cabin deck. Pygmy Nuthatch photographed by Dianna of L.A. Audubon.

P urple Finch dads totally rock :~) More photos by Dianna of L.A. Audubon, with a curiously colored Purple Finch added for good measure.

B een summering, off and on, at the family cabin in the San Bernardino National Forest near Big Bear Lake. A most excellent group from L.A....

He'll be two in September. Photos from the last few evenings here in God's country, the San Bernardino National Forest near Big Bea...

B renda Barnette, the new GM of Los Angeles Animal Services, meets the press with a big ol' love bug/lap dog of a pit bull. H/T: L.A. An...

A nd firebombs ! Welcome to Los Angeles, Brenda Barnette , and have fun dealing with some of the most vindictive, sanctimonious, self-absor...

D unno. They just are. I wuv them. Now that the snow is melting, wildlife is popping up all over the SoCal nightly news reports: bears, mou...

That's snow-capped San Gorgonio at 11,503 feet in the background. Big Morongo is a desert oasis: "The Morongo Fault, running thr...

These Ross's Geese winter in California, raise young in the Arctic. Thanks to groups like Ducks Unlimited , the species is thriving an...

More aftershocks. [Click for big.] This is a screengrab from a site bookmarked by just about everyone in the Golden State: Recent Earthqua...

E ep. I usually don't do much of anything when I feel a smallish earthquake [the series of three point this and four point that we had ...

Bird of Paradise [plant] on right, and Hooded Oriole [bird] on the left at a friend's feeder, April 3, 2010. Click to embiggen. T his c...

No more winter browns. American Goldfinches are going through the closets, doing some spring cleaning, getting rid of the old stuff. [My...