Since you asked
Interviewing Richard Schulhof should have been simple, a rote exercise of announcing that the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden has a new Chief Executive Officer, imparting a few quotes as to his plans, then wrapping it up with a time-will-tell remark. That’s the approach that I took six years ago, when the last CEO arrived.
It was about as successful as the last CEO, who in 2008 left the place much as he found it — an Arcadia picnic ground full of exotic plants and free-ranging peafowl.
The recent decision to interview the Titanic’s, excuse me, the Arboretum’s new CEO was a reluctant one. In fact, it was made only after Schulhof gamely responded to a dismissive reference on this site to the effect that the Arboretum’s 127 acres are a monument to the gardenesque philosophy that is draining our water supply.
“I thank you for throwing …
Dirty glow
The ash storm over Europe caused by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull Volcano has brought the kind of hot sunsets long familiar in smoggy Los Angeles. Click on this image of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh by Scottish photographer Murdo MacLeod to be taken to a photo gallery in the Guardian newspaper of ashen sunsets over the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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