Archive for February, 2007
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 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General News, History, Marin County, Photography, Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
The Gossip Columnist
“Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea,” as Walter Winchell led off his World War II radio broadcasts. “Let’s go to press…”
Topping the news… A film is due out shortly titled The Penultimate Truth about Philip K. Dick, the late science-fiction writer who once lived in Point Reyes Station. You [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General News, Photography, Point Reyes Station, Uncategorized by DavidMitchell
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Saying Yes to Change
Former West Marin resident Dee Goodman now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, which was founded by the Spanish in 1542.
This past week, an old friend, Mac Williams, and I traveled to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and ended up spending several days with a former West Marin resident now living there, Dolores (Dee) [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in General News, Inverness, Photography, Point Reyes Station, Uncategorized by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
The Bush Adminstration at Point Reyes Part II: Whatever happened to the Citizens Advisory Commission to the GGNRA & Point Reyes National Seashore?
After three decades of generally good relations between West Marin residents and the Point Reyes National Seashore, how did we end up with a park administration better suited to an autocracy than a democracy? Why does the general public now have only a perfunctory say when major park policies are set?
Frankly, the answer is politics, [...]
