You know you’re in LA when the heavy equipment Caterpillar that is in many colder climate areas used to scrape ice from the roads, is used in the concrete river to scrape away unwanted growth. This is the scene about twice a year probably in most of the concrete lined rivers and streams in LA and it’s environs, the picture is from La Ballona Creek.
Here is another sign that you are in LA, or at least in a big city and not out in the woods, a cellphone antenna tower masked as what could pass for a redwood at a distance. Or maybe they look the same way out in the woods, it might just be hard to find them for all the trees.