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Ginger

16 September 2018:

Lily brought home a full ginger plant from the farmers' market.

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The 110 Freeway

 12 September 2018:

From the same photo walk. The mosaic version of this also turned out quite nice.

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Grand Park Fountain

12 September 2018:

I went on a photo excursion to downtown Los Angeles last night, and captured this image of the fountain in Grand Park.

Note the white squares in the upper right. When I first saw these, I thought it was a message from the Trisolarians (see The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu).

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Beach Cottage

7 September 2018:

I walked down to the end of the Hermosa pier and back late Friday afternoon. I took this portrait of a rather colorful beach cottage along the way. It is on 10th Street, very close to the Hermosa Strand and the beach.

Notice the brush hanging next to the steps to allow one to easily brush off beach sand before entering the house. I also like the very rusty thermometer hanging above the brush on the post. It does not look like it is working anymore. I wonder why that is still there?

Yes, the beach is off to the right.

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Window Washing

5 September 2018:

I have been washing windows for five days. We have not washed windows for a few years now, and the dirt really accumulated so it is slow. Most of the work is gaining access to the window (over furniture, around clutter, etc) and then getting all the dirt off of the frames and sills. My production rate is 1.7 windows per hour. I have three windows left, for a total of 41 windows and one sliding glass door.

Hazards to wildlife: Today while I was cleaning the big sliding glass door, I had its screen propped up against a big post in the middle of the back yard. Apparently I put the screen across a hummingbird flyway in the back yard (they love our lion's tail flowers). After cleaning the glass panes of the sliding glass door, I came out into the back yard and found myself face-to-face with a very upset hummingbird, flying just a few feet in front of my face and squawking like mad. I could not figure out what all the racket was about until I looked down at the screen and found its mate stuck in the screen. He or she must have flown at full speed into the screen and impaled its tiny bill right through it. I gently tipped the screen backwards and shook it a bit, and the bird managed to back out and flew away, probably with a nice headache but not much worse. There must have been some interesting conversations between those two back at the nest tonight.

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Oh Canada!

4 September 2018:

Lily's cousin Antonio introduced me to these headscarf / sleeve things to use during cycling to keep the head cool and the helmet clean. He gave me a blue one as a present to wear while were were mountain biking.

Yesterday we went to the Hermosa Fiesta (~artisan fair held over labor day weekend) and I found some at a reasonable price, including one with a Canadian flag-like motif. Cool!

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