In a blog post today, a one Mr. John Scalzi ranked the months of the year and why. He then asked commenters to do the same. Here is my comment: Ms. Jen says: October 1, 2015 at 9:56 pm I live in SoCal and…
Tag: SoCal
Happy New Year!
Thurs 01.01.15 – The night before last we had a brief, windy, and cold storm that whipped through SoCal and dropped more snow on the local (lower) Santa Ana Mountains than on the (higher/taller) San Gabriel Mountains. Thus, both yesterday – New Year’s Eve…
The First Camellia of the Season a Few Months Early
Photo taken by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N950. Thurs 11.17.11 – The one block of south-east and 2 blocks of south facing front line of houses in Seal Beach have an interesting little micro-climate where one home owner has roses and camellias all…
Winter : Janaury 7th, 2010 : Southern California
Photo taken by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N97.
‘Tis My Favorite Time of the Year
Winter Solstice, where the Northern Hemisphere has the longest night and shortest day of the year, happened today at 9:47am PST / 17:47 UTC. Today ushers in my favorite season of the year: Winter. I love it. I love the chill. I love being…
Farewell to NaBloPoMo for Another Year, Unless you are Doing December…
November has been both a good month and a bit of a struggle. The struggle has been family/holiday/death related, as blogged about here, and the Good has been friend/family/art/music/mobile/travel/wedding/baby related. The three bits about November that were really delightful are as follows: 1) The…
This Morning
Photo by Ms. Jen with a Nokia N97. Thur 11.18.09 – Now that the hot, dry SoCal summer (July – Oct) is behind us, the roses are in full busting out all over bloom. Southern California has two good growing seasons, one from February…
Fire Season Has Started
Photo taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N95. Mon 08.31.09 – That mushroom cloud is not a thunderhead, nor is it an atomic cloud, but is the singular cloud of the Station Fire as seen from the distance in Huntington Beach.