@19501990: Did I ever mentioned how beautiful they were as a couple? When they described one another, it’s like reading a poem, you could literally feel their love they had towards each other. “WINONA FOREVER” definitely has a part of my heart.
Picture was taken September 18, 1990 during Herb Ritts Birthday Party in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI) During the month of May 2019, Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI), our all-volunteer nonprofit organization rescued 62 starving California sea lion pups and we are in a crisis situation providing medical and rehabilitation care for these animals. We continue to rescue more starving pups each day. We urgently need fish to fill our freezer so we can nurse these animals back to health and return them to the wild. Fish costs $1 a pound. Our goal is to raise $22,000.
If you don’t have any funds to spare but can spread the word that is helpful too! For more info on CIMWI please see their Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/CIMWI/ or their official page at http://cimwi.org
This is the Children’s Pool in La Jolla beach. In the past the seals were protected by having the beach closed from December 15 through May 15. This August that permit will expire. The seasonal beach closure has reduced seal harassment during the pupping season while dramatically reducing police calls with no citations issued at all. The closure restored the calm needed for the seals to give birth and nurse their pups in a natural environment free of human harassment during this critical time, while maintaining the unique viewing experience that remains open for all locals and tourists alike to enjoy.The guideline rope has helped in preventing human harassment of the harbor seal colony during the non-pupping-season months.
Without the rope, people will get too close to the seals. They will scare them by trying to pet them, or trying to take selfies with them, surrounding the seals and blocking their escape route to the ocean.
When mother seals get scared they often abandon their pups who can die from following them into the waves which they aren’t strong enough to swim against yet, or starve to death from waiting on the beach for their mothers who will never return. The abandoned baby seals cannot be saved by rescuers, as that would lead to scaring even more mothers into abandoning even more pups.
Not lizards, but animal related. Please help protect them! I’ve sent my letter, and if you have a moment please consider helping them, it takes less than a minute!
a poll because i’m curious (and because this has divided everyone in our office over the last couple days). tell me in the tags where you’re from and if you peel your peaches before eating them.
I love this account because years ago when I worked door-to-door, I would semi-routinely get sent to unbuilt, defunct (collapsed/absorbed/reallocated) or wholly undeveloped addresses. Most surreal day on the job, I got sent to a whole fresh development of houses without phones or driveways yet (figuratively, partially). I don’t think they even had a settled district at that point in the year. Street signs? Pffft. According to every available online map service, they did not exist. It was naked country. I have no idea by what process my company settled on their presence. I had made a left turn into a null zone. The plans existed somewhere, yes. They had to, legally. But there was barely a presence indicated at the county auditor’s office (which no one paid me to check). It was like dealing with Space Amish. I was left to conclude that whoever was selling these homes was operating in direct conjunction with the occupants’ employers.
