The statue of the running boy seems suspended in the air at the fountain in Westlake Village’s Promenade Mall. I was sitting at a nearby table late this afternoon, enjoying the cooling mist coming from the fountain. It suddenly occurred to me how beautiful the water display was, with the sun shining through and lighting it up. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Outdoors'
Dashing Through the Flow
September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Green, Meditations, Outdoors, Westlake Village
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A Little Bit of Paradise, Conejo Valley Style
September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Green, Outdoors, Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks resident, Ben Pankratz writes, “This beautiful year-round falls plunges seventy feet, down a volcanic rock wall in Wildwood Park. The park is located in Thousand Oaks, at the west end of Avenida de los Arboles. The round-trip hike on Moonridge Trail is about three miles.” Ben says he took this photo in January, [...]
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Zuma Westward Beach Trilogy, Part III
September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Malibu, Meditations, Outdoors
Hmmm, dueling suns or moons, over an empty foggy beach? I have no idea what the two spheres are that appear in this photo of Westward Beach in Malibu this morning, looking north toward a lifeguard station. It is hard to believe this is a midmorning shot on September 1st, isn’t it? Where are the beachgoers? [...]
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Zuma Westward Beach Trilogy, Part II
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Malibu, Meditations, Outdoors
I watched Pat Boone last night on television, in one of those 1/2 hour presentations for Time-Life CD’s, where he hosted musical selections from the late 1950′s and early 1960′s. One of my favorite songs of his from way-back-when, was “Love Letters in the Sand.” I thought of that as I walked on the wet [...]
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Zuma Westward Beach Trilogy, Part I
September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Malibu, Meditations, Outdoors
It is the first day of school in my neighborhood, and I decided it was a great morning to visit nearby Westward Beach in Malibu. Kids would be back in schoolrooms, and there should be plenty of free parking along the frontage road. Besides, the weather here in the Conejo Valley was blue-sky-beautiful, and I just [...]
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Thank You to Young Community Volunteers too!
August 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Green, Oak Park, Outdoors
I just posted on Sunday, about the great work adult volunteers are doing in the Conejo Valley and Ventura County, and today I am highlighting the volunteer efforts of some kids in the Conejo. Harry tells me that almost 20 children, aged three through eight, took a clean-up hike along Medea Creek in Oak Park and picked up trash [...]
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Egret on Wing
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Meditations, Oak Park, Outdoors, Ventura County
Walking along Medea Creek in Oak Park this morning, my granddaughter and I happened upon an egret. As we approached, it spread its wings and flew away. We also spotted eight rabbits along the path. Post and photo (taken from a bridge above the creek) by Janna Orkney
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A Farmer’s Market on the Honor System
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Green, Meditations, Outdoors, Ventura County
Yesterday, Ventura and Ojai beckoned my granddaughter and I. We headed for Ventura’s harbor first, to fill up on Andrea’s best-in-the world fish and chips. I feel like such an insider at Andrea’s, because I know that if I order 1 piece of fish, they will give me three! While that can be a meal for [...]
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Fog Coming up the Conejo Grade this Morning
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Meditations, Newbury Park, Outdoors
I was heading north on the 101 Freeway by the Borchard offramp around 9 this morning (8-15), when I took this photo of the fog, coming up the Conejo Grade and over the mountains. As you can see, one mountaintop is poking through. In this instance, Carl Sandberg’s 1913 poem, Fog, where fog, “Comes on little cat feet,” does [...]
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Parrots at Malibou Lake
August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conejo Valley, Green, Las Virgenes, Meditations, Outdoors
I’m sitting on my porch watching parrots…wild parrots…. eating acorns off my oak trees and dates off my palm tree. Just curious, has anyone else had noticed the wild parrots of the Conejo Valley? ( technically the flock I’m looking at are black headed parakeets) For more info, go to: http://www.californiaparrotproject.org/index.html or http://scottsla.com/articles-parrots-wild-in-pasadena.htm Posted by Ted. Editor [...]
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