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| A red-tailed hawk leaps into the wind at Balboa Natural Area. |
I'll bet I'm not the only one who was jolted awake in the wee hours last night by gusting winds. For me it happened around 3:30 a.m., with not just windows and doors rattling, but the whole building shaking. It reminded me of the earthquake we had the other day that rattled and shook the floor-to-ceiling bookcases next to my computer desk. (The quake was relatively small, a 3.5 or so, but struck less than ten miles from my home.)
Ordinarily I'd have simply enjoyed feeling nature's power, but the hideous fires in Los Angeles have made the "what ifs" a little too close, and too real, for comfort.
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| Most of my yard looks dry and colorless this time of year, but I was pleased to see that the pipevine is in bloom. |
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| Note the heat-shimmer distorting the foreground buildings (the VA Medical Center being the big one) and the sun reflecting in the windows of Stinson Beach homes in the background. |
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| Yesterday's Moonrise from Grandview Park |
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| Ikebana |
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| Windrows at Ocean Beach This Morning |
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| Suspended Animation |
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| Tubular Swells |
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| Cliff House View Toward San Pedro Rock |
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| Moment of Bliss |
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| Riding back down the hill from the Cliff House I noticed this red-tailed hawk in the grass inside the Balboa Natural Area, so I turned around to check it out. I arrived just as it was tearing into the last of whatever meal it had recently caught. |
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| Note the single banded leg, probably the same red-tail shown in the last post. I'm tempted to give this hawk the name of Marlon. As is Marlon Bando.... |
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| I put the camera in burst mode in anticipation of the hawk taking flight. |
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