Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XVI: A gopher snake & other neighbors
I ran into a snake near the foot of my driveway last Thursday. Or, to be more precise, I managed to avoid running over it.
A Pacific gopher snake three to four feet long was warming itself on sunny patch of Campolindo Drive near the ends of Skip and Renée Shannon’s driveway, Jay Haas and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Marin County, Photography, Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
New newspaper to be published in West Marin
Few Point Reyes Light reporters have received as many awards as Ivan Gale (upper left) of Chileno Valley, winning five state and national journalism awards in 2004 alone. The Light’s new owner, Robert Plotkin, on May 3 announced he will no longer display the awards won over the years by Gale and other [...]
17 Comments » - Posted in Dave Mitchell, General News, History, Marin County, Point Reyes Station, Sonoma County, The Point Reyes Light Newspaper by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Mermaids, Cows, Horizon Cable, and Russia’s Internet war on Estonia
Tomales cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux drew an enthusiastic crowd to Bodega Landmark Gallery in the town of Bodega Saturday when she opened a two-week exhibit of her surrealistic and often-whimsical oil paintings.
The final days are this Friday through Monday.
Not surprisingly, two of her favorite subjects — cows (such as Moonrise Over Tomales [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in General News, Marin County, Point Reyes Station, Sonoma County, agriculture by DavidMitchell
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres Part XV: ‘Among animals…one finds natural caricatures.’
“Nature has wit humor, fantasy etc.,” wrote Novalis (1772-1801). “Among animals and plants, one finds natural caricatures.” His observation came to mind last week when I photographed this great blue heron standing watch over a World War II army bunker at the Muir Beach Overlook.
Novalis, by the way, was the nom de plume of Baron [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in General News, Marin County, Photography, Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature, Wildlife, agriculture by DavidMitchell
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 [...]
