In January 2022 parts of Hollywood were devastated by a very fierce (i.e. hot) fire.
You didn’t hear about it?
My beloved and I have visited Hollywood many times, but the only bit of Los Angeles that we have directly “enjoyed” is its godawful airport.
We harbour no desire to set foot in the famous/infamous Hollywood, but are very fond of the petite, not-famous Hollywood Reserve.
This choice patch of inner-urban bushland sits “right next door” to one of Australia’s major cemeteries.
This little series celebrates its ongoing recovery, as witnessed on what some folks regard as “the first day of spring”.
in 2024 September’s first day was also what some folks regard as “Father’s Day”.
As you will see in the coda to this little series, that celebration proved a boon to one species, “next door”.
Actual seasons in Australia – most especially in WA – are highly-movable “feasts”…or famines.
In Perth in 2024, “spring” was underway well before August’s end.
Click here for immediate access to four previous posts which show and tell a deal about Hollywood Reserve…as it was before the fire of 19.01.2022, and as it was a few months thereafter.
Thanks in no small part to a great deal of local, voluntary effort, in this Hollywood, things are now “looking up”.
(photo is ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 3.21 pm on 01.09.2024. The flowering plant is one of a great many WA-endemic Hakea species. I am not sure which one of at least several “suspects” the pictured one is. If you know, I’d be happy to know too)
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