Mount Waterman summit – 8089 ft / 2466 m. RIYL: Sound of soft winds finding their way upwards from a valley floor through conifers. pic.twitter.com/S6ClzQ0t9n
— ../westy (@westyreflector) May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018 at 12:57AM
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[img] 20180528.18 / All the ❤️ today, @catmthomas.
20180528.18 / All the ❤️ today, @catmthomas.
May 28, 2018 at 08:29PM
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[img] 🎼 “Malibu Ellie…”
🎼 “Malibu Ellie’s s out to have some fun / Likes her meat rare and her man well done / Malibu Ellie’s cruisin’ on the surf / Step on this pier, you’re on her turf / Malibu Ellie… 🎶… Malibu Ellie… 🎶…”
May 26, 2018 at 08:17PM
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[img] Ellie so L.A.
Ellie, in from Brooklyn for the weekend, and already so L.A.
May 25, 2018 at 08:23PM
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[img] Flim-Flam Flamingo Swanny Swan-Swan
Flim-Flam Flamingo turned to Swanny Swan Swan, pissed. “There’s more,’ you said. ‘Something, beyond this Mt. Olympus party house, beyond the infinity pool edge,’ you said. ‘Let’s float away to destiny…’ Well, Swanny, maybe the pool wasn’t such a bad place!”
May 20, 2018 at 07:16PM
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[img] Met The Queen tonight
Met The Queen tonight at the former Laurel Canyon home of Ursula Andress. She said, “The one in England’s my double for security purposes.” The crazy thing is me & her Highness are the only cut outs in the photo. // 📷: @catmthomas
May 20, 2018 at 12:41AM
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[img] polychrome spiritual superficiality
LA’s polychrome spiritual superficiality creates everyday paradoxes. Star maps don’t chart the sky. Freeways offer surge-priced fast lanes. Warnings come with smiles. The absurd is deep, yet blithe.
May 19, 2018 at 03:07PM
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[img] eaton canyon wilds
Xclnt today to meet @tzaddi53 in the wilds of Eaton Canyon. The spiral serves warning of the rattlesnake who lives under the rock. Rumor is the snake drew it first, and said, “I’m only warning you thissss oncssse.” So Richard now refreshes the symbol after rainstorms.
May 16, 2018 at 09:11PM
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[img] all the <3 today
Ever the dreamer. Courageous, tenacious, patient, and creative. A true inspiration. All the love today, Mom.
May 13, 2018 at 09:00PM
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[track] Canyon Bees, Birds, and a Chicken (20180509.1)
“A bee, a bird, and a chicken are hanging out in the Hollywood hills…” sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s just a field recording. The bees are pollinating a perpetual-blooming Echium Candicans (“pride of Madeira”) flowering shrub in our Laurel Canyon Garden, while a mockingbird, a scrub jay, a few other birds, and a chicken across the street join in the chorus.…
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[dispatch] thoughts 20180510.2118
You don't think thoughts. Thoughts are how you think.
— ../westy (@westyreflector) May 11, 2018
May 10, 2018 at 09:18PM
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[aired] Between Stations: Yellow Dog Blues Backstory
Enlightening walk-through by Mississippi writer Suzassippi with some fantastic photos of the actual location where the “Southern cross the dog” in W.C. Handy’s Yellow Dog Blues.
In 2014, the Disquiet Junto participated in an NPR Studio360 project to record modern versions of Handy’s track in honor of its 100th anniversary.…
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[img] Echium Candicans
Echium Candicans
pride of Madeira
subshrub invasive ornament
Spanish nectar
soda jerk two-straw shake
going-steady bees
canyon hillside date
10 minutes drive
from a retrofit-rail-car diner
off Sunset
May 09, 2018 at 04:46PM
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[img] dream state 20180506
dream state 20180506
wellmans divide
idyllwild, ca
elev.: 2985m / 9792ft
May 06, 2018 at 11:44PM
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[img] Chuck Walla, the wizard lizard
Chuck Walla, the wizard lizard, could make a blizzard, but his gizzard he likes hot.
May 05, 2018 at 10:44PM
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[img] dream state 20180504
dream state 20180504
May 04, 2018 at 11:11PM
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[dispatch] tracked vs found
Not wanting to be tracked doesn't mean you don't want to be found.
— ../westy (@westyreflector) May 2, 2018
May 02, 2018 at 04:33PM
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[img] Western Squirrels
“Western squirrels are bronzed like sunsets, Rodin’s The Thinker, and Orange County skin. They eat red walnuts and yellow loquats al-fresco.”
– Sir David Doñaburro, National Ponchographic Explorer
May 01, 2018 at 09:32PM
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