Here is a fine cat named Tribble. Like many of the animals in these pages, Tribble has been dead for many years. Yet this cat remains a splendid role model for us all. Not only was he a noble, kitten-protecting big cat, he had a glorious attitude toward life. Tribble was the sort of cat […]
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. Share on Facebook
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This magnificent creature posed for me on the surface of Big Bear Lake this afternoon. Share on Facebook
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Share on Facebook
Elana is the hand model for this year’s newest fashion in modern bugs. Share on Facebook
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 by my mom 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. It’s […]
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. Share on Facebook
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. Share on Facebook