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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XIV: ‘The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair’
“The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair,” wrote the French playwright Jean Baptiste Poqulin Molière (1622-73). Indeed it is, and I’ve been keeping a record.
Now I don’t claim to believe in such miracles, but a recognizable apparition of Jesus (or is it Moammar Khadafy?) appears on the glass door of my woodstove almost every […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Dave Mitchell, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Marin’s hyper-defensive Sheriff Bob Doyle ’stays the course’ despite blunder and gets county government & others sued
Despite not holding the reins on his team, the ever-political Sheriff Bob Doyle takes part in the Western Weekend Parade.
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As some of you no doubt read in The Marin Independent Journal, atty. Ladd Bedford on April 12 filed on my behalf a false-imprisonment lawsuit against the County of Marin and sheriff’s deputy Josh Todt.
The […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, Personal, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Dave Mitchell, Photography by dave
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XIII: ‘Who’s the Head Bull-Goose Loony Around Here?’
I need merely to look out my cabin windows to see it all around me — among the deer, horses, and red-winged blackbirds, among the raccoons, steers, and bluejays. It’s the unending struggle by each species to maintain its pecking order.
The pecking order — which is sometimes called “dominance hierarchy” or “social hierarchy” when talking […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography, agriculture by dave
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XII: April showers ‘cruel’ with ‘no regrets’
Too many rainbows? The first week of April, it rained at my cabin virtually every day or night. A factoid reflected in this photo from my deck is that the sky is always darkest outside the arc of a rainbow. The reason is a bit complex, but if you want a good explanation, check the […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Point Reyes Station, Personal, Dave Mitchell, Photography, agriculture by dave
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XI: The perky possum
One of the odder events in this long-running saga called Nature’s Two Acres occurred Saturday night. (The two acres, of course, is my pasture surrounding this cabin in the hills above Point Reyes Station.)
It all began when Dee Goodman, who is visiting from Mexico, and I went out on my deck at twilight Saturday to […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography by dave
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Point Reyes names in the news
SparselySageAndTimely.com extends a warm “Happy Birthday!” to restaurateur Pat Healy of Point Reyes Station (left), who topped 80 on Wednesday.
Pat operated the Station House Café for 30 years, during which time she turned the former hamburger shop into a restaurant praised in Gourmet and other food-and-drink publications.
Pat in June 2005 sold the café to its […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, History, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Inverness by dave
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Former Point Reyes Light columnist John Grissim, the late pornographer Artie Mitchell, Brazilian President Lula and the advent of orgasmic diplomacy
Writer John Grissim (left), formerly of West Marin, with the late pornographic filmmaker and theater owner Artie Mitchell (no relation) 22 years ago. The occasion was a gala party for the opening of The Grafenberg Spot. Grissim wrote the screenplay.
For eight years, The Point Reyes Light carried a column called West Marin Diary by John […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, General News, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by dave
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part X: ‘Nature Red in Tooth and Claw’
Life in the wild includes a fair amount of suffering, as this raccoon with a third its tail missing bears evidence.
A couple of raccoons cut across my upper deck almost night every night an hour or two apart. In fact, a fair number of nocturnal creatures take shortcuts across my deck to avoid having to […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, West Marin nature, Wildlife by dave
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part IX: Point Reyes Station’s Blackbirds
I happened to photograph three Brewer’s blackbirds last Sept. 20, the day Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez drew applause at the UN by comparing President Bush’s supposed sulphuric stench to the devil’s and the day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President Bush clashed in the General Assembly over Iran’s nuclear program. Chavez’s sarcastic comments were, […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife, Photography, agriculture by dave
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part VIII: ‘Mice & rats, and such small deer’
With my neighbor’s housecat keeping them company, eight blacktail deer spent Wednesday afternoon grazing and chewing their cud in the fields around my cabin.
Housecats don’t bother blacktails, unlike the coyote that crawled through my fence in January and caused the deer to immediately scatter.
A blacktail doe watches a housecat on a woodpile washing itself.
Before we […]
