Archive for March, 2007

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 General News, History, Inverness, Marin County, Point Reyes Station, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by DavidMitchell

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 General News, Marin County, Point Reyes Station, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, Uncategorized by DavidMitchell

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 Marin County, Point Reyes Station, Uncategorized, West Marin nature, Wildlife by DavidMitchell

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 Photography, Point Reyes Station, Uncategorized, West Marin nature, Wildlife, agriculture by DavidMitchell