The Dry Garden: Weeding in the rain
With the first rain of the season fast evaporating from the tree leaves outside the window, it feels as if I may never again enjoy perfect gloom. So much rain in Los Angeles fails to come at all; other times it comes down too hard, and so often it falls at night. By contrast, this week water met daylight. From morning till night, the atmosphere was like gray milk, making visibility down among the plants incomparably good. Without its normal cover of glare, the garden stood for inspection … By Wednesday afternoon, it was time to admit a knuckle-scraping truth. The job that needed doing was weeding.
To keep reading the Dry Garden in the Los Angeles Times, click here.…
Art and water in Beverly Hills
Graffiti at the confluence of the LA River and Arroyo Seco by Liz Reday at "Affaire in the Gardens" this weekend in Beverly Hills
MORE than 200 artists from around the country will be featured at the Beverly Hills art show Affaire in the Gardens this weekend, reports Barbara Thornburg in the Los Angeles Times. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Beverly Gardens Park, located on four blocks from Rodeo to Rexford drives along Santa Monica Boulevard. The subject of this year’s show is water, “although no rain is planned,” event spokesman Robert Nieto says.
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El Nino: “A slight tilt in the odds” for California
THE NATIONAL Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday reiterated forecasts for an El Nino in its seasonal outlook for December-February.
California, it says, has a “slight tilt in the odds toward wetter-than-average conditions over the entire state.”
For the announcement, click here. For Chance of Rain’s chat with JPL oceanographer Bill Patzert on the likelihood of a big rain year, here. For a September 28, 2009 NASA round-up of the debate over whether it will rain much or not in the parched West this winter, click here.…
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