Could anything be more breathtaking? Venus highlighting the slender crescent moon with a ghostly glow filling in the lunar dark side? Such stunning visions are common if you know when and where…
Environment
In popular culture, time machines turn up disguised as police call boxes, sports cars, pocket watches and pendants, but in the Santa Monica Mountains you don’t need a DeLorean or a TARDIS…
Bird nesting season officially began March. Time to think of your back yard as a bird sanctuary. The National Wildlife Federation can help you plan that out. One robin may not make…
A Rim of the Valley park plan was first proposed in the 1920s. In 1930, the Olmsted Report was issued by the firm founded by the sons of landscape architect Frederick Law…
Our wonderful wet winter continues with 5.94 inches of rain falling on Fernwood in February. The season total now stands at 21.19 inches of precipitation, well above the 14.43 inches that is…
P-22 finds himself in an urban wildlife Romeo and Juliet situation, but rather than feuding families, he and his love are separated by the notorious 405 and 101 freeways. While our friend…
All over the Santa Monica Mountains a green tide is rising as dormant seeds, awakened by the rains after years of drought, are burgeoning forth into a sea of greenery. The profusion…
These simple plywood boards, strewn in a field, look like trash. And they definitely are on the surface. Illegal dumping is something we unfortunately have to deal with in the Santa Monica…
We’ve all seen them. Rays of light coming from the sun like spokes on a wheel. They go by many names: sunbeams, angel lights, rays of Buddha, ropes of Maui, sun drawing…
On Jan 21, 2017, ten-year-old Topanga resident Gwyneth Seelinger saw a “funny cloud” over PCH and took a picture of it. What she captured with her iPhone was one of the best…