Sparkling Vistas

As the eastern seaboard hunkers down under record snowfalls, Los Angeles is bidding farewell to its latest bout with crummy weather. The unexpectedly heavy rainfall this past weekend finally loosened the La Canada hillsides denuded by last fall's wildfires.

The payoff for storms in LA, though, is the natural beauty the area displays after it has been scrubbed clean by rain. In the winter, that includes snow in the mountains that form the northern boundary of the region.

The Mt. Wilson webcam that supplied dramatic views of those oncoming wildfires even as it seemed to chronicle its own demise seems to have survived just fine:


In larger form, this is my new desktop picture.