Where will you be for the American Eclipse? - August 21, 2017

Coming up on Monday, August 21, 2017

 

Totality

OK, OK we know...
But do you, really?  Where will you be?

NASA Eclipse State Maps: 
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-maps
(includes viewable and printable maps showing the eclipse pathway and times)
You can see a partial eclipse anywhere in North America!

 In Southern California? 

See the 60-70% partial eclipse!

What Do You Need For Viewing?

0. Solar filters for eyes, cameras, and scopes:
   
   
   
    
   
   
   Camera Obscura (indirect observation): a pinhole in a card to project the image of the Sun. 
   
   

For our friends in Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory posted a great .gif to show the partial eclipse.

 Sun Viewed through a solar filter

We really like their name for the eclipse:

THE ALL-AMERICAN TRANSCONTINENTAL TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE!

http://griffithobservatory.org/events/Solar_Eclipse_August_2017.html

http://griffithobservatory.org/events/Special_Event_Partial_Eclipse_2017.html 

Look for the patterns in the shadows from leaves on the ground.. or your house!

 For More on Eclipses.. 
 Visit TheEarthMinute.com

The Earth Minute presents: the American Total Solar Eclipse 

 Visit the FANTASTIC NASA Site
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/
 

Walk with us The Women's March in Los Angeles, January 21, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on January 21, 2017 for The Women's March in Los Angeles.

It was the most diverse, inclusive and uplifting march and civil protest we have ever seen.

 

See and Hear the day in LA.

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The subway system from Universal City to Pershing Square was overloaded ...

 

... but once we realized that if you "Go North it Turns Around", we packed ourselves in.

It was an honor to have been able to join in voicing our concerns for the full rights of all people.

 

Support and defend your first amendment rights and the rights of others. 
Support and defend our earth.

Hear our voice.

"This Is What Democracy Looks Like" !!
 Join us at TheEarthMinute.com

An Ice-Aged Earth Day

On this Earth Day - Go Outside! 

See the planet of today and time-travel into its past. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles spotlight our scientific present and humble us with a view into the past of 40,000 years ago.

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The Pleistocene Garden is green with plants eaten by camels and horses once native to California and the Columbian mammoths that lived here for thousands of years. Can you imagine these large creatures grazing on the open hillsides of the Las Virgenes Open Space?

The Tar Pits still ooze and bubble. They still take captives, while slowly revealing their treasured information from a long-ago past. Saber-toothed cats and packs of dire wolves once claimed territory along the Los Angeles River. 

Take a minute to make your own outdoor discovery 

• butterflies
• salamanders
• lizards & snakes
• orchids, dudleya, & epiphylums

Then contemplate the future you'd like to live in.

See a Surprised Salamander! Black-bellied Slender Salamander

Starting our Second Year of TheEarthMinute.com, 
we had a surprise guest in our backyard!

 

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A Black-bellied Slender Salamander -
Batrachoseps nigriventris

Coming out after the rains..  tiny but determined.. 

 

 She's a beauty! 
 For more California wildlife - subscribe to and visit  TheEarthMinute.com

Close-up with a Red Jumping Spider
Meet a Channel Island Fox  
Meet a Roosevelt Elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti)

http://www.californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/b.nigriventris.html

New Year's Eve 2015 Lights on the mountain - Snow Summit - Big Bear California

22 degrees Fahrenheit...

Standing with hundreds of strangers watching fire wind down the hill...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Watch the Annual New Year's Eve Torchlight Parade at Snow Summit

 

The lights on the slopes went out....

Over 100 skiers and snowboarders carried torches down the Snow Summit Miracle Mile creating a beautiful sight on the last evening of the year.

 

 

For more adventures, visit us at 

TheEarthMinute.com

Watch: Santana Winds Come to Los Angeles   

See: The Mendenhall Glacier - Southeast Alaska 

Visit: A Kelp Forest at CA Science Center  

 

Take a Stroll Under the Oaks - November in Rocky Oaks Park

We took an early stroll the day before Thanksgiving, 2015 in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area through a little 200 acre gem of a park.

 
Rocky Oaks Park is a short drive away from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.

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 Sunlight in the early morning plays through the oaks, pines, and rocks of the park.

Rocky Oaks Park is located in the 31500 block of Mulholland Highway west of the Kanan Road intersection. The entrance is on the north side of Mulholland Highway.

Take the Ventura Freeway (U.S. 101) to Kanan Road. South on Kanan Road to Mulholland Highway. Turn west (right) on Mulholland Highway and right again into the parking lot.

GPS Coordinates: N 34.0967 W -118.8141

Nice, well maintained trails.
Dogs allowed on leash.
Water available.
Meeting circle, ranger area under the oaks. 

 

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See these posts and Videos! 

Close-up with a Red Jumping Spider (California)

Visit Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park (endangered Channel Island fox)  

Yucca Blossoms on Angeles Crest Hwy  
Leaves on CA Native Plants Fight Drought
How Tall is a Redwood Tree?   

Santana Winds Come to Los Angeles October 29, 2015

The Santana Winds have come to Los Angeles.

 October 29, 2015

The term "Santana winds" is said to have originated in Spanish California when the hot, dry winds were called "devil winds."

Maybe you've heard of them as "SANTA ANA WINDS"? 

At the turn of the last century, an Associated Press correspondent mistakenly identified Santana winds as "Santa Ana" winds in a 1901 dispatch.

Raymond Chandler wrote a 1938 short story about them called 

 "Red Wind"

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks.
Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."

View a video from our yard as the winds parch the drought stressed plants early the  morning....

 And view more in Southern California : at TheEarthMinute.com

View more videos!

 Leaves on CA Native Plants Fight Drought

This Morning in a Habitat Yard 

 (CA towhee, band-tailed pigeons, ruby-crowned kinglet, Bewick's wren, CA desert tortoise) 

Visit Pierce College Botanical Garden