Bookwyrme's Lair

Bartlett Park, my favorite little not-sure-what-it-is place, is full of birds of prey. Of course, they hardly stick to the park--it's de...

I can't decide if Bartlett Park is the ugliest beautiful park or the most beautiful ugly park in the neighborhood.

More rain means more water for Bartlett Park, Huntington Beach. It looked fairly dark and foreboding in the evening light, but the local wil...

I discovered a new entrance to Bartlett Park the other day. I've been approaching it from the Albertson's parking lot and just learn...

I visited Bartlett Park again the other day. To be honest, it's had better days. Despite the recent rain, the water in there is mostly l...

Big, scraggly ugly weeds at the edge of Bartlett Park. Yet even they have flowers. The bees like them, and I've seen any number of la...

Yup. Rain suits Bartlett Park: A glamor shot of Bartlett Park in the sunshine. It is full of all sorts of grass and buzzing with life....

Rain really does suit the park. Even the raggedy big weeds at the edge have flowers.

On one side of the wall, birds of prey hunting other birds and rodents. On the other, rows and rows of garbage containers for the stor...

Rain agrees with Bartlet Park.

There is a single dead tree overlooking Bartlett Park that is much loved by the crows; my guess is that they like being able to survey the...

  Bartlett's Park aka Hidden Valley has been mowed now and is considerably less wild-looking--and also freer of broken bottles and dried...

A few months ago, I noticed tree-cutting equipment and bulldozer-type stuff out in the park and wrote about that. Later, I saw it after the ...

Ok, a careful search turned up a Drainage & Storm Water Quality report (or minutes of a meeting? Somesuch) for this year, and the city ...

So does anyone know what is happening with Bartlett Park/Hidden Valley? I was down there a while ago, and there was a lot of tree-cutting t...