I got up this morning and was pulling my clothes on when I happened to look out the window and saw a bobcat strolling casually by. The other side of the street rises up an embankment to a fence, and on the other side of the fence, the bobcat sauntered past, accompanied by the shrieking […]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
A buck in full velvet just strolled through the back yard, browsing on the shrubs. He was unbothered by us standing on the porch talking loudly about taxidermy. He was one of those with funky asymetrical antlers, and looked to be a thirteen pointer. It was pretty cool.
So I’m spending a quiet evening in tonight–the combination of chocolate cheesecake, hairpin turns, and time of month all ganged up to make me think that maybe laying on the couch and watching a movie would be a nice way to spend the evening. So I flip through my host’s extensive video library, and discover […]
Work proceeds apace. Took a break to doodle some birds. I need to paint more birds. Of course, my scanner’s on the other side of North America at the moment. Been trying to figure what I want out of life. This is heavy stuff to contemplate, but not as much as you’d think, because I’m […]
Well, here we are. May 28th. I have finally crossed that dark threshold. I’m thirty today. One of the first thing you learn about birthdays as a kid is how you don’t feel any different the next day. The difference between May 27th and May 28th is only a day, not a full year. (Actually, […]
So t’other day at Huntington Gardens, I was in their gift shop–briefly, it was a zoo–and saw an interesting art book of the work of someone named Joseph Cornell. Not having suitcase space, I didn’t get the book, but once I got back to my faithful laptop, I looked him up. Joseph Cornell’s weird little […]
Let us speak for a moment, my friends, about ravens. I have, in the course of my life, probably seen ravens before. But since I’ve been birdwatching, I’ve been living in a section of the US pretty light on the raven population, and so, I hadn’t ever counted one, or paid particular attention to one. […]
I succumb at last to my agent’s suggestions. It’s all about marketing, she says. It’s all about networking, she says. Oh, come on, she says. And she’s right, of course. When my basic business model is tied to people knowing I exist, I can’t not do it. It’s time. I dragged my feet on LJ […]
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention from drag-queen bingo t’other night (and which must be memorialized!) The bathrooms. The lady’s room had a disco ball in it, and they were playing ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” on infinite loop. I wanted to stand on the toilet, applaud, and yell “Now THIS is what a drag queen […]
Huntington Gardens was awesome! Leaving aside that they’re amazingly gorgeous gardens, the birds were cool! I didn’t see the parakeets, but I saw something equally cool–a Red Whiskered Bulbul. They’re an import from Asia that’s established a breeding population in a very few places in Southern CA, one of which is Huntington. (They’re a neat […]