Couldn't resist another weather shot. A California Conservation Corps crew chops weeds as the rain comes and goes in Rancho Cucamonga this afternoon. Photo: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times
Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, essayist, book critic and blogger, and has been a staff writer at virtually every newspaper in Southern California. One of the highlights of her career was interviewing Vin Scully in his broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, then receiving a handwritten thank you note from him a week later. She lives in Malibu.