Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase: Winter Solstice Exact 8:49 PM Tonight

Photo: Diane Edwardson.  It just seems right to celebrate the winter solstice, exact at 8:49 PM, PST, with the Silver Lake Ave Moai.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)
 

Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase: No, You're Not Hallucinating From The Heat & Humidity

Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 24, 2015.   Moai stand guard at the section of the Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase between Riverside Place and the Red Car Property.  (Click on photo to enlarge.)

This segment of the public staircase is recognized by the City Dept of Transportation as a public staircase/walk street. 

Note: I always see people, guidebooks in hand, attempting public staircase hikes in the summer heat.  I've walked the steepest hills and public staircases of Silver Lake and Echo Park for 25 years.  If you are just a casual hiker, don't do this after 9 AM or before 7 PM in the summer heat.  Hiking stairs, even on cloudy days, increases your body heat unbelievably fast.  With the kind of humidity we're experiencing, sweat doesn't evaporate and you run the risk of heat stroke.  

Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase: Made Your Summer Solstice Pilgrimage Yet?

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer. There's still time to make your solstice pilgrimage before the sun sets at 8:08PM, behind the Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase Moai. (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Silver Lake Ave: Winter Solstice Exact 3:03 PM Stuff You Missed This Year

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, November 12, 2014.  Make your pilgrimage to Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase & celebrate the the start of winter, today, at 3:03 PM Pacific Standard Time.

Stuff You Missed This Year is our annual wrap up of interesting photos and things we just didn't have a chance to run, because everything always seems to happen at the same time.
 

Red Car Property Adjacent: Can The Cult Of The Birdman Be On The Horizon?

Photo: Diane Edwardson, August 25, 2014.  Yeah, it's esoteric, but some of us know our Easter Island history.  It's what comes once all the natural resources are depleted; trees cut down, drought, infighting, cannibalism.  But for now it's a great photo op.

Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox exact today at 7:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time.   

Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase: New Landmark Moai Brought Rain This Week

Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, February 8, 2014.  A Moai mysteriously appeared in the guerrilla garden adjacent the Silver Lake Ave Public Staircase, not only greeting visitors to the Red Car Property, but bringing the first measurable rain* in 2014.  Perhaps a new cult of the Red Car Moai will take hold. Pray for more rain.

 

Rainfall totals, according to the Corralitas rain gauge:

February 6, 2014: 0.3"

Season to date:    1.65"

*The last measurable rain: December 19, 2013.