Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Music, wildlife, and the cosmos
Two ravens have begun defending my pasture, often sitting atop pine trees and croaking out loud “cr-r-ruck” warnings. Whenever I wander down my driveway, they circle low overhead, creating quite a din. The easiest way to distinguish ravens from crows, by the way, is by their tails. Raven tails are tapered like the bottom of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General News,History,Marin County,Photography,Point Reyes Station,West Marin nature,Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Garbage in, garbage out
There was a time in these parts when “W.M.” stood for “West Marin,” but in 1998, Waste Management appropriated the initials for its new, shiny containers which hold our home and yard debris. It now appears that this coast will soon be able to reclaim the abbreviation. These containers are at the foot of Balboa [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in History,Marin County,Point Reyes Station,Sonoma County by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
76-year-old Nick’s Cove reopens
Nick’s Cove restaurant and cottages, which Croatian immigrants Nick and Frances Kojich originally opened on the east shore of Tomales Bay in 1931, reopened last week after being closed seven years for remodeling. This past Sunday, owners Pat Kuleto and Mark Franz held a benefit party for the Tomales Volunteer Fire Department and invited the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Inverness,Marin County,Photography,Sonoma County,Uncategorized by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
What we didn’t celebrate on the Fourth of July
A blacktail doe and her two fawns in my field. Fawns at play bound across my field. Now that Independence Day is over, let’s take a moment to reflect on what it was really all about. Footraces in Inverness? Parades in Woodacre and Bolinas? A tug of war between Bolinas and Stinson Beach? Illegal fireworks [...]
