While I often call it “Blue Jay”, it’s just not right. This is a California Scrub Jay, a real bully, feeding on small animals, like frogs and lizards, eggs and young of other birds, but also grains, nuts, and berries. What’s worse, it’s regularly waking me up. On Wikipedia, its “screech” is described as “harsh and scratchy“. […]
Any of you boys seen an aircraft-carrier around here?
.. at the very end of Oceanside Pier, looking toward the setting sun .. “She’s lost that loving feeling..” In the 1986 movie Top Gun, this is the house the female love interest [Kelly McGillis as “Charlie”] lived in and was visited by Tom Cruise via motorcycle after playing volleyball. The house has a […]
Ramona Santana Riders Gymkhana
No rider under the age of 18 years will be allowed to ride without a safety helmet. If you have ever seen them go at it .. you’d know why that is. There is also a pretty strict dress code in place: No tank tops, t-shirts, muscleman shirts, or crop tops. No shorts or pants […]
American Graffiti, again.
Two years ago on a Thursday night, just after I had learned about the “Ramona American Graffiti Cruise Night”, I got the chance to take a couple of pictures. The pictures together with my thoughts can still be found here. Cruise Night is still going strong and there is still “no talking trash about anyone’s […]
Your weekly Coyote fix
The Coyote seems to have grown a bit. This morning around 9 am I saw it again at the end of the backyard. I was still inside, but it had noticed me through the large window, long before I had spotted it. Instead of taking photos through the window pane, I took the camera and went outside, risking losing this […]
Coyotes and Road Runners
Only a short week after I wrote about our Hometown Coyotes, the little guy came back and this time brought a friend along. They were only mildly annoyed by a Greater Roadrunner, who had escaped to the top of the Beavertail prickly pear cactus.