KelsonV

@KelsonV@pixelfed.social

Hobbyist photographer in the Los Angeles area. Mostly landscapes, buildings and nature. Main Fediverse account at @kelson

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KelsonV, to graffiti

I was surprised to find even this much of a lay phone left standing yesterday. Having just re-watched The Matrix, I thought I'd tint it green and call it "No Exit."

#PayPhone #graffiti #obsolete #TheMatrix

KelsonV, to wildflowers

Probably an #EveningPrimrose of some sort, by the side of the road.

#wildflowers #flowers #yellow #florespondence #bloomscrolling

KelsonV, to Plants

"Still Alive," take two. I bumped up the contrast and saturation, and I think that makes it work better, at least on a small display.

KelsonV, to Plants

Still Alive.

KelsonV, to random

Colander as a

KelsonV, to random

Clear skies for the #eclipse. The holes in a traffic sign post make for surprisingly good pinhole cameras! (Gaps between leaves are usually good too.)

Going to go back out in maybe 15-20 minutes with a colander and the eclipse glasses.

#solarEclipse #shadows #pinholeCamera #improvise

KelsonV, to random

The rodent equivalent of a birb. I was going to call it a moce but it's a pocket gopher.

I don't often see them out and about...just the head sticking up out of a hole for a few moments. But it's been raining today, so maybe the burrows are flooded.

A small brown rodent in a concrete gutter, reaching up the side with its forepaws.

KelsonV, to Bloomscrolling

Chickweed flower spotted at the base of the guy wire for a telephone pole.

KelsonV, to random

Peak coverage for this area, seen through eclipse glasses.

KelsonV, to random

So far, so good! Weather forecast said partly cloudy, but the sun's visible, and the eclipse glasses haven't cracked.

KelsonV, to random

"Beneath the Veneer"

The brick building is painted gray. The bakery wanted a classic brick look. So they put a false brick veneer that looks like a brick wall over the real bricks that don't.

KelsonV, to Flowers

A California ground squirrel takes time to stop and eat the flowers.

I took a walk today at the South Coast Botanic Gardens near Los Angeles. It's big enough to feel like you can get lost in it, but small enough that you can't actually get lost. In the wilder parts of the garden (not real wilderness, they're imported plants with labels on them!) there are a lot of shady trails.

The same squirrel, only this time it's stretched out diagonally, its hind legs and tail on the ground as it reaches for one of the taller stems.

KelsonV, to Flowers

A cliff aster seen poking through the bushes alongside the trail.

: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177075938

KelsonV, to Rabbits

Desert cottontail seen on a hike in over the weekend. (It was only in the 80s there!)

: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177075941

KelsonV, to Flowers

Bladderpod . This is the only one of the previous batch of plants I bought from the same group to survive the fact that I waited way too long to transplant them! The name comes from the seed pods they form, which look kind of like very wide pea pods.

KelsonV, to Flowers

Somehow I never got around to posting this California Poppy photo from late winter. it's one of several native pollinator-friendly plants I bought from a local conservation group last fall, and IIRC it was the first to start blooming.

and i just discovered the tag, which I'm happy to control to!

KelsonV, to photography

Views from the trail, which runs along the hillside just above the transition from riparian zone to chaparral. In the third photo you can see the tops of the trees running along the stream.

The orange strangly vines growing all over some of the scrub in the second photo are apparently a parasitic plant called a dodder. According to Wikipedia they're known as "strangle tare, scaldweed, beggarweed, lady's laces, fireweed, wizard's net, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, angel hair, and witch's hair."

Looking out across a shallow valley at some houses. Some low scrub brushes in the foreground. Some of them are covered with orange vines that look like someone sprayed an entire can of silly string on them.
Lots of plants - low scrub in flower in the foreground, then some rocks and a cactus, then a line of the tops of trees. A brown hillside and blue sky are visible in the distance.

KelsonV, to photography

Small wildlife seen on a hike near a stream. The main trail mostly ran along the chaparral-covered hillside just outside the riparian zone, but a few branches went down through the trees to the stream.

The lizard was well-camouflaged as it skittered around the tree trunk, in contrast to the two (a vivid blue dancer and a flame skimmer -- you can probably guess which is which!) There were quite a few small blue dancers (like half this length!) flying around the trail uphill from the stream bed. This one was resting on a wooden beam placed across the stream as a bridge. Finally, a checkered white in front of the invasive mustard plants that were all over the lower parts of the chaparral.

A very narrow, very bright blue dragonfly on a wooden board near the edge, seen from above and to the side, its long translucent wings folded back. Its eyes are two blue spheres attached to either side of its head, making the whole body look sort of like a T-pin.
A bright red dragonfly perched on a twig, its long translucent wings out and slightly downward. In the background are blurry green leaves. Its eyes take up most of its head, and it is facing toward the camera.
A white butterfly with a two dark spots on each wing, one circular and one square, perched on a one of several tiny clusters of bright yellow flowers. The tangle of green stems behind them is so thick you can't see anything through it.

KelsonV,

Correction: The vivid dancer is actually a , not a dragonfly. The narrow body shape and eyes set on opposite sides of the head are what distinguishes the two suborders.

KelsonV, to random
  1. Is the coast clear?
  2. Lunchtime!

Two squirrels chased each other around briefly, then this one went up to the top of the roof to eat its peanut.

A squirrel standing on a roof, holding a peanut in its mouth and looking toward the camera.

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