Bubbles, Inc. Coffee mug/camera/bubble gun
Hot dog in bun or butterfly?
The river flows southeast and i came upon this small jet of water about the size of a drinking fountain shooting out of the ground northwest in the opposite direction.


Someone hung a fish on a noose:

As I was taking a walk by the river today, these trees reminded me of my friend Dan Schank's paintings.

L.A. River Museum of Modern Art

Gordon Matta-Clarke


Richard Serra


Hermann Nitsch


Giorgio de Chirico


Morris Lewis


Charles Scheeler



Mimmo Rotella

I decided to give my pet mantis a send-off to insect Valhalla down the L.A. River. Yes, I'm an incredible dork.
but the good news is, there's an egg case waiting to hatch:

Here's a view form my roof from today:

Here's a detail that looks like what the album art should be if Brian Wilson did a Burzum tribute album. (Click image to supersize.)I should be ok, since the fire would need to jump the river and 2 freeways to get to me.

For a sense of scale, here's a map of L.A. I live where the red X is (Click on image to enlarge).