Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Thanksgiving in Point Reyes Station
Here’s hoping you had a happy US Thanksgiving this past fourth Thursday of November. My family in Canada celebrated that country’s Thanksgiving on Oct. 13; it’s the second Monday of October up north where the harvest comes earlier. As for my family down south in Guatemala, that long-suffering country gets no Turkey Day at all. [...]
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres Part XXXVII: a bobcat at my cabin
While on my deck enjoying the sun around 2 p.m. Saturday, I looked down and spotted something moving in the grass near the cars parked at the foot of my front steps. After first using a pair of binoculars to confirm that the animal was a bobcat and not just a large housecat, I quickly [...]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Quotes Worth Saving II
In Point Reyes Station, which President-elect Barack Obama carried with 86.1 percent of the vote, brown hills quickly turned to green after the election. It’s time for another installment in this blog’s occasional series Quotes Worth Saving, which, in fact, is the label on the file in which I save them. Here are a few [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres Part XXXVI: The migrating birds of fall; or ‘Swan Lake’ revisited
West Marin provides wintering grounds for a variety of migrating birds, and one of the first to arrive each fall is the Golden-crowned sparrow. This one showed up on the railing of my deck a couple weeks ago. Besides having a yellow stripe down the middle of its head, the Golden-crowned sparrow has a distinctive, [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Election night euphoria
A healing this nation has needed for more than two centuries has just occurred, and like many of the people around me this past evening, I’ve found my eyes periodically filling with tears of happiness. In West Marin, Barack Obama picks up 86 percent of the vote on his way to winning the presidency. Tuesday [...]
