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  • Little Temples-Memorial Day

    Anyone who walks the shore along Little Dume has seen them. Depending upon the tide, the winds, or the urge for a kid to knock ‘em down with a kayak paddle or a baseball bat, they may stand for days at a time. Like little temples they stand, equidistant apart among the many boulders and…

  • Pride of Madeira : Pride of Malibu

      The deliriously blue-purple conical shaped flowers you see shimmering along our arid coastline every Spring is the Pride of Madeira. I like to call it the Pride of Malibu. Its’ botanical name is Echium candicans which sounds like “eating candy” to me. Don’t try to eat it. From a distance this biennial subshrub looks fuzzy and soft, but…

  • Drat! The Fate of Rats and Owls in Malibu?

     How can we lower the rodent population in a humane way, but keep the owl community thriving? At first it was the bold, haunting image that caught me. I merely glanced at the advertisement: the somewhat magnified photo of a raptor’s large amber orb of eyes and the dark, lifeless varmint in its beak declaring,…