At the corner of Griffith Park Boulevard and Los Feliz: I don't recollect seeing this painted junction box before (which doesn't mean that it is brand new - it may just be another example of finding new things on a slightly changed walking route). It's a puzzling design - the raccoon on a boulder; the vultures; the tree; the mountains are all reflected in a lake (or maybe a far-from-full reservoir) - but the bear isn't reflected, and instead, the upside down big mammal is a mountain lion. In recent good news in these parts, ground will be broken this coming spring at the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing, over the 101 freeway (that separates off the Santa Monica mountains from everything further north), and one hopes so much that mountain lions (and bobcats, and coyotes, and so much else) will learn that this is a place of safe passage.
This is, of course, a daytime scene. Had it been night, it would have been good to have had a Great Horned Owl in it: it's territory and mating season, and there's one making some very impressive hoots outside my window right now.
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