Back in 2007, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power finally put water back in the Lower Owens River, the result of a judge’s order issued several years before. (Hey, this is my photoblog, so I don’t have to research everything ….) As part of the plan, however, DWP was allowed to take back…
One of the hardest parts about summer vacation for my kids is that their friends tend to be out of town a lot, and they get bored. In the next couple of years, I am going to have to go get a real job, so this very well could be my last or second-to-last summer…
The first part of my Imperial Valley presentation, a technical slideshow on the Imperial Dam and All-American Canal, is in the finishing phases and will soon be posted online. It expands on this post on the Imperial Dam and All-American Canal headworks with a lot more technical details; it also takes a look at where…
One of the most-viewed posts here on the photoblog is on the Imperial Dam and All-American Canal headworks, a post I put together while on a trip gathering photos and information for an upcoming series I have been producing on the Imperial Valley. The project is a self-produced project, one that is set aside when…
With summertime here and with most of my kids’ friends out of town on vacations or busy with other activities, I have picked out some adventures of our own to have this summer. I kicked off our ‘series’ of events with a stroll through the Sepulveda Wildlife Area, lunch at Jerry’s Famous Deli (with the…
Most people living in Los Angles are familiar with the concrete-lined flood control channel that is named the Los Angeles River. Encased in concrete along much of its route, the Los Angeles River doesn’t really look much like a river – but there are places where the river runs in a natural course. One of…
I have traveled through California’s San Joaquin Valley (also known as the Central Valley) a number of times, once on an organized tour but mostly on my own. I find agricultural landscapes interesting, plus I am interested in seeing where my food comes from. So here is a collection of my best pictures of agriculture…
With the kids gone for the weekend, it was road trip time! So where better to go than the remote Carrizo Plain National Monument, located in the far eastern corner of San Luis Obispo County. Having only a day to spend there, we left Friday night and stayed up the I-5 off the Stockdale Highway…
Originating in the Sierra Nevada mountains and running through Sacramento into the Delta, the American River is one of my favorite California rivers. (Of course, if I am to be honest, since I live in Southern California, any river whose flow primarily is not of treated sewage effluent running in a graffiti-laced channel of concrete…