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2012-09-21 - 6:38 p.m.

Photo credit: NASA

This morning, the Space Shuttle Endeavour did a couple of low fly overs RIGHT BY MY HOUSE!! on it's way to LAX. It was so close, it felt like I could almost touch it. Unfortunately, I did not get any photos of the fly over (that thing was fast...going like 567 mph!). But to give you an idea of how close it was, scroll down to the photo I took a few days ago (not of the Shuttle) from my deck. If you imagine the Shuttle somewhere between that plume of smoke and the view from my deck....it was RIGHT THERE!!

I can't begin to describe to you just how amazing and moving it was to see this piece of history cruise right by me with it's fighter jet escort. I could hear it, feel it, see it. Incredible. I really didn't expect to get so emotional over it, but I was a pile of weepy~teary~eyed mess.

It will be parked outside at LAX over the weekend. I'm hoping to maybe get some photos. We'll see. Wish me luck!

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2012-09-15 - 4:35 p.m.


So it looks like it's fire and smoke season again here in L.A. (Last week was earthquake season. No, wait...it's *always* earthquake season!) Woo hoo!....not. There's already been several fires just in the last three days. The above pic is the beginning of a 90 acre fire that burned near The Getty Center yesterday, as seen from my deck.

(That big dry circular area you seen in the foreground is actually a dry lake. In the rainy season...about two weeks out of the year...it actually fills up with water, and magically, loads of hibernating frogs appear. But for now....dry as a bone. Just like everything that's on fire.)

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