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May 4, 2023 by Reg Green
That's a very ordinary scene in La Cañada, isn't it? And a very ordinary photographer took it. Still, that's the point. It illustrates what an essay I've just...
That's a very ordinary scene in La Cañada, isn't it? And a very ordinary photographer took it. Still, that's the point. It illustrates what an essay I've just...
We’ve all noticed that in spring what is just a fallow field one day is bursting with color the next, as every flower comes alive, shouting for attention....
Our family piled into the car this week and 90 minutes later were in Antelope Valley (near Lancaster) to see the millions of orange and yellow poppies,...
Between the rains, with Southern California looking its legendary beautiful self, a high-end convertible overtook me on the freeway and I caught a glimpse of...
Regular readers will understand the special pleasure my wife, Maggie, and I took in the Oscar awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis for best supporting actress. By Reg...
Are these La Cañada Water Department’s official colors? By Reg Green Or are they a show of solidarity with Ukraine? And like Winston Churchill’s...
Compared to the Sierras and the Rockies, the San Gabriel mountains are very much the ugly sisters: the peaks lacking grace, the vegetation rougher, the colors...
“Brutal Cold Sweeps Across New York and New England”, a NY Times headline shouted over the weekend. By Reg Green “Record-Setting Cold Shocks...
Today, I’m having a birthday that I could scarcely have imagined: my 94th. By Reg Green When I was growing up, people died in their 60s, even 50s. If you...
All my children, and I have five of them (don’t ask me why) envy me. By Reg Green Normally they hide it so well that only I can detect it. But today it...
Here’s a photo of my wife, Maggie. Lovely, isn’t she? By Reg Green She’s the costumer for the cheeky Pacific Opera Project of Eagle Rock, seen...
PHOTO REFLECTIONS After the fierce winds that whipped up the wildfires so alarmingly, an unnatural calm has descended on the San Gabriel mountains. Here among...
PHOTO REFLECTIONS Does this look like the Arroyo Seco that you know? This photo was taken a couple of miles up from La Cañada at the very edge of the low cloud...
“It’s June in January,” Bing Crosby used to sing when I was just getting interested in the meaning of words. By Reg Green It seemed a trifle...
GUEST EDITORIAL I took Laura, the new mistress I have just found, on a short but rigorous hike last Sunday. By Reg Green My wife, Maggie, wisely stayed at home....
GUEST OPINION I am the Egg Man. Colorado Boulevard,net‘s cultured readers will remember that in Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift ridiculed the...