Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.
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Sara’s back!
And so is Berube!
And Dr. Ralph endorsed Obama, so I guess the Kerry bumpersticker on the Clinch Mountain Boys’ tour bus way back then wasn’t a fluke.
And this indecisive storm system is trying to rain on us tonight.
Bad timing, but still desperately welcomed.
Posted by Ron Sullivan | 3 comments already... Among the things I missed commemorating this week is one significant unknown anniversary.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, not
so much eventful as
just weirdly absorbing.
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OK, not how one ordinarily gets to see a gator, at least for long. We got into the new California Academy of Sciences’ palace on Sunday with the press gang and I took some photos. This one links to my Flickr set, so go have a gander.
Posted by Ron Sullivan | 8 comments already... Today’s quotes from Teresa Nielsen Hayden:
It must be nice to live in a world where you not only expect to win all the time, but believe everyone has a duty to make nice to you while you’re doing it.
Sound aesthetic judgement has never been one of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. If it were, there wouldn’t be an entire Precious Moments Chapel at the Precious Moments Inspirational Park in Carthage, [Missouri].
Then again, I sincerely doubt that any holy spirit has anything to do with the Precious Moments Abomination. That mess squicked out even my devout sentimental Southern 98-year-old (when she mentioned the place to Joe) mother-in-law.
Also, another seasonal marker: I saw two spotted sandpipers today, flying close together over the lagoon at Shelter Bay in Mill Valley, Marin County.
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