Go. See. Do. Riverside and Beyond
We drove out to Los Angeles yesterday to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour. We caught up to the shuttle at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Menlo Ave. / Bill Robertson Ln. Thousands of other people were there too…
What an amazing sight.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour will be on display at the California Science Center beginning 10/30/12.
This dirt lot in the middle of the Victoria Grove community in Riverside belongs to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD):
Just a few weeks ago, this lot was bordered by beautiful orange trees:
What happened to the trees?
As explained in the following post on a member agency’s Facebook page, MWD removed the trees as “part of their long-term maintenance”:
So, according to the Metropolitan Water District, “long-term maintenance” includes destroying mature, healthy and well-maintained orange trees that were located directly across from an elementary school in the middle of a community named after orange groves. Got it.
This row of healthy orange trees along Blackburn Road in the community of Victoria Grove is not an uncommon sight in Riverside. Neighborhood orange trees are nice reminders of Riverside’s citrus heritage and the orange groves on which many of our homes were built.
Here is that same row of healthy orange trees being cut down and removed.
I guess I will contact the Metropolitan Water District to find out why.
Have you seen this picture of the repugnant sign at the Orange Church of God?
Could this church be in our neighboring Orange County?
Nope. It’s a fake.
This picture is from a website that allows you to create fake church signs (and many other types of fake images)…
The website also includes this disclaimer:
Note: these church signs aren’t real, they don’t exist in the real world. You’ll be making a fake photo of a church sign.
Not something you see every day. This was parked on Cajalco yesterday near Temescal Canyon. I would love to drive one of these.
I took this picture of Lake Mathews on my way to the gym this morning.
We saw these turkey vultures flying over Lake Mathews Dam a few days ago. My wife had her camera with her so we decided to stop and take a few pictures.
We were curious about the bird with the wing tag so I consulted google and found a conservation site that had pictures of other turkey vultures tagged with white wing tags. I eventually found out that this bird was tagged in the summer of 2009 either at Irvine Lake in Orange County or at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area.
I also found a site operated by the U.S. Geological Survey that lets you report sightings of tagged birds. So if you see a tagged bird, visit www.reportband.gov/.
I took this picture on May 21st looking west from Mathews (Lake Mathews) dam.
Thank you to all of the firefighters and emergency personnel who kept the McKinley Fire from harming any people or homes.
From the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection website as of 05/23/2010:
Name: McKinley Fire
County: Riverside County
Location: McKinley St and Indiana Ave near Home Gardens, east of Corona
Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire
Status/Notes: 1,028 acres – 100% containment
Date Started: May 20, 2010 12:48 pm
Last update: May 21, 2010 6:30 pm
I took this picture in the Tuscany Village neighborhood in Riverside. Not too bad for a cell phone camera.
