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Category Archives: Animals
Trinket 1958
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Here is another of my mom’s great early color photographs from the 1950’s. She took this picture of a kitten named Trinket back in December 1958. The family cats didn’t start to get weird until the 1960’s.
Mad Carew 1974
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This was one of the crazier cats I grew up with in the Hollywood Hills. She was named Mad Carew, a perfect description as well as a catchy moniker. Is she using keen powers of concentration? Is she in touch with a higher consciousness? Or is she nuts? (This is an easy question.)
This photograph is [...]
Lonesome Dove
Sunday, August 24, 2008
The latest visitor to our tiny slice of unpaved suburbia is this bird, which hung out with us for a couple of hours before flying off. The bird and I watched one another for quite a while.
Who was this bird? Why did this bird choose this place? How come it was alone - don’t birds [...]
Dracula 1974
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
This rather nervous-looking cat was named Dracula because of his fondness of going for the neck of anybody wearing perfume. They all had it coming. Already I have featured one of the other weird cats from the spring of 1974. Don’t worry, there’s more where this came from! We had 12 cats in the house [...]
Blue Dragonfly!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
This magnificent creature posed for me on the surface of Big Bear Lake this afternoon.
40 Years of Politics
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Forty years ago today, I did my first bit of political work. For a few minutes during the afternoon of Saturday, June 1, 1968, I handed out bumper stickers for the Bobby Kennedy campaign. I was nine years old, and I figured I was a late-bloomer, seeing as how much younger kids had been active, [...]
Ticker 1974
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Here is a picture I took of a cat named Ticker way back in April of 1974. In this photograph, he is using his immense mental powers to open a can of cat food and to cause it to pour into a bowl that only he can see. Back in ‘74, there were eleven other [...]
Rainbow
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
We adopted Rainbow from the Helen Woodward Animal Center on December 1, 2007. This is how she looks today.
How is it that a black dog with white highlights would get this name? Alexis, Emily, Elana and I met this fine dog on November 30, 2007. This was the first day we had been out looking [...]
Lizard in Rainbow, CA
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Rainbow is a beautiful town built on steep, high hills close to where San Diego and Riverside counties meet. This is a photo of the rare Rainbow Lizard, found only in Rainbow, California.
Beetle in the Hand
Friday, May 2, 2008
Elana is the hand model for this year’s newest fashion in modern bugs.
Gerry Pearce & Sindi 1957
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Today is the fifth anniversary of my dad’s death.
This is one of the best images to come out of the family archives. It was taken in 1957, about a year before I was born. It is one of the very few color photographs my mom took before the late 1960’s.
Kauai Red Head
Monday, September 17, 2007
If you can’t get a few good bird pictures at Kauai, it’s time to give away the camera. George tells me that this is a red-crested cardinal, a bird native to southern South America.
Butterfly at Lady Bird Johnson Grove
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Lady Bird Johnson Grove is a magnificent park in northern Humboldt County. It is home to majestic views and massive redwood trees. Beautiful scenes play out on smaller stages, too, as this picture shows.
Sunflower Bird
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Growing sunflowers is one of the best things we’ve done this year. Once again, I’m lucky to have my camera handy. I saw this cool green bird for only a few seconds, but long enough to get this picture. George tells me that this bird is a female American Goldfinch.
