Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Paving Point Reyes Station’s main street at night
Caltrans repaved Point Reyes Station’s three-block-long main street, Highway 1, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Wednesday night the southbound lane was paved; Thursday night it was the northbound lane. Each night, a state highway crew ground off a three-inch-deep layer of the main street and then filled the trench with asphalt. Point Reyes Station resident Tony [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General News,Marin County,Point Reyes Station by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Bolinas Firehouse & Clinic opening party Sunday
Chief Anita Tyrrell Brown parks at Bolinas’ new firehouse. The new station, which replaces one that was not earthquake safe, had been in the works for more than eight years. It has now been in use for almost a week. Scores of people showed up Sunday for a grand-opening party for the firehouse and adjoining [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General News,History,Marin County,Photography by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Nature’s Two Acres XVII: As seen by an old, almost-blind dog
My houseguest’s tiny Bichon Havanese mix becomes acquainted with one of my resident raccoons. The raccoon could see the elderly dog better than the dog could see her, but neither could smell the other through the glass pane of my dining-room window, so both soon lost interest in each other. A former neighbor, who through [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Dave Mitchell,Marin County,Photography,Point Reyes Station,West Marin nature,Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Despite public-be-damned management, it’s still a beautiful park
State Senator Carol Midgen (center) on Sunday afternoon lent her support to a crowd of more than 50 people, who were protesting the Point Reyes National Seashore’s beginning to kill off its fallow and axis deer herds. The park began shooting deer last month, along with giving contraceptive injections to some does. The shooting has [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Language, politics & wildlife
Let’s start with the wildlife and move on to language and politics. A female Anna’s hummingbird at my cabin. The website Hummingbirds in Motion reports, “The hummingbird (scientific family: trochilidae) does not fly in the same way other birds do. They can fly forward, backward, up, down, and even upside-down. The motion of their wings [...]
