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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres XXVIII: The first fawns of spring
Blacktail deer forage around my cabin on a daily basis, and I’ve often posted photos of them. But apropos May Day, I had a new experience last Thursday with my cloven-hoofed neighbors.
A doe brought this spring’s offspring into my field. They were the first fawns I’d seen this year, and they ultimately provided me with […]
No Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Table of Contents
Entries are numbered in the order they were posted but by necessity are published in reverse order. The most recent postings (the highest numbers) begin below the Table of Contents while No. 1 is at the bottom of the final page.
To go directly to a story without scrolling, click on the highlighted phrase following the […]
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Beat Generation lives on at the No Name Bar
Fifty years ago this month, the late columnist Herb Caen of The San Francisco Chronicle coined the word “beatnik.”
As it happened, a recognized Beat Generation — epitomized in literature by poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Jack Kerouac — had made its presence known over the previous decade, and six months earlier, the Soviet Union had […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Marin County, History, Photography by dave
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
‘Still Life With Raccoon’
‘Still Life With Raccoon‘ (My school of art obviously lies somewhere between R. Crumb and Art Nouveau)
Black Mountain with the Giacomini Wetlands in the foreground. Much of what is now Nicasio Reservoir, Point Reyes Station, and the land in between was once owned by the Black family, whose daughter Mary married Dr. Galen Burdell, […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres XXVII: Animals about town
This yellow journalism stinks, I said to myself last Wednesday morning upon picking up my San Francisco Chronicle at the bottom of the driveway. As I discovered with displeasure, one of the neighborhood foxes had peed on it.
Foxes are like that, marking relatively prominent spots around their food sources and dens. Last year, neighbor Jay […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Newspaperman from Chileno Valley describes his life in the United Arab Emirates
Chileno Valley ranchers Mike and Sally Gale several weeks ago returned home after spending a fortnight in the Middle East visiting their son Ivan, a newspaperman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Sally, Mike, and Ivan Gale at their Chileno Valley ranch last Christmas.
In 2003 and 2004, Ivan was an excellent reporter for The Point Reyes […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Marin County, General News, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, agriculture by dave
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Point Reyes Station and Inverness Park demonstrators call for a pedestrian bridge over Papermill Creek
Gathered on both sides of Papermill Creek Sunday morning, 125 West Marin residents demonstrated their support for a pedestrian bridge at the site of the onetime irrigation dam for the Giacomini Ranch.
Demonstrators including surfboarders, kayakers, several dogs, and people on opposite shores assemble for an Art Rogers photograph Sunday morning. A line over Papermill/Lagunitas Creek […]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Seeing history through newsmen’s eyes…. or the pen is mightier than the pigs
While Newsday reporters celebrated their winning a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1970 for an exposé of corruption involving public officials and Republican Party figures on Long Island, one of the crooks who had been exposed showed up.
Republican leader Freddie Fellman, who would subsequently go to prison, “lived up to his reputation as a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Personal, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by dave
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Five faces of Spring
“A little Madness in the Spring/ Is wholesome even for the King” — Emily Dickinson
We’re only four days into Spring, and already the world looks brighter. Of course, the return of Daylight Savings Time has probably helped. In any case, here are five faces that have brightened my cabin in the past few days.
My houseguest […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Supervisor Steve Kinsey defends further restrictions on woodstoves in West Marin
Government officials’ wanting to sound “green,” rather than science and common sense, seems to be behind the growing number of restrictions on West Marin’s woodstoves. (In fact, a number of environmentalists have complained that the new restrictions on woodstoves are actually un-environmental, for they encourage the use of fossil fuels for heating while restricting the […]
