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reaching for the vines

7/21/2016

 
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location: Oakland, CA

bras still Berning

6/14/2016

 
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Oakland, California (near Webster and 16th)
Bay Area murals are such a treat. This one first made me smile a month ago and I was happy to see it again today, one whole week after the Cali primary.

3 of many snails climbing high

6/12/2016

 
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location: Berkeley Marina
There were so many. I suspect the fog keeps everything moist enough for them. The sea and sky directly behind could've been pulled from this JMW Turner painting, the mood as well.

which came first, tree or fence?

5/26/2016

 
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location: Vancouver, BC

albino alligator and alligator snapping turtle

5/25/2016

 
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location: California Academy of Sciences
They sat like that for a while, at least until closing time.

Welcome to the garden!

5/4/2016

 
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location: The Gardens at Lake Merrit, Oakland
Sculpture by Karen Cusolito.

I am not on the sidewalk

3/23/2016

 
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Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montreal (Dec2015)

October splendor in Rock Creek Park

3/12/2016

 
Tree pictured in the middle stopped me in my bicycle tracks. Wild colors and bark expressions. I think it's an American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis). It's a serene park today, but not so long ago humans waged a war here... against invasive plants:

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happy ears on the late night train 

3/11/2016

 
Late one December night in 2012, near the Oregon-California border, I found the finest company one could hope for on a train. The recording starts in the adjacent car, passes through the squeaky vestibule and lands in the viewing car, the place to be.

*mystery solved* curious scattering on Oregon Coast

1/20/2016

 

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a discreet charm of the Pacific Northwest: umbrella vending machine

1/18/2016

 
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location: Vancouver, BC

snowy solstice

1/15/2016

 
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location: Duffey Lake, British Columbia
Notice the avalanche paths leading into the lake's 'mouth'. That would be something to witness!

my editor's brain sees an audio waveform

12/6/2015

 
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From summer 2013 on the Yukon River, downriver from Rampart, Alaska.  It's close to midnight and it won't get any darker. The river is about one kilometre in width here and the current has barely picked up since leaving the Yukon Flats. For what this river lacks in whitewater it makes up for in landscapes so stunning they make you forget the simple task of operating a canoe. We nearly flipped.

telescope gazing at Chabot Space Center

11/19/2015

 
First two images are of Leah, the 8" refractor installed in 1883 . The third is Rachel, a 20" refractor installed in 1915. Last is Nellie, the newer 36" reflector. This place is a treasure in the Bay Area. Open nights on Fridays and Saturdays are the best. The volunteers who handle the telescopes are passionate about astronomy and their enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks to them I've peered into the Pleiades and seen Io, Europa and Ganymede and their shadows transit while Jupiter was in opposition. I've also been there when humidity was too high for stargazing, so I just gazed at the telescopes.

movie theatres take note: you are sitting on a pop-goldmine! 

11/8/2015

 
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location: Tillamook, Oregon

interfering with trees

11/1/2015

 
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location: Vancouver, BC

wood (and metal) pecker

10/25/2015

 
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location: Vancouver, BC
Spotted this Northern Flicker (Colaptes Auratus) grazing the backyard. I usually hear them hammering at trees and telephone poles, but once I saw one making a much louder sound against a metal cap at the top of a pole.  Metalhead bird.

Amorphophallus Titanium under high surveillance

10/17/2015

 

The Fearless Grouse

10/7/2015

 
We were seated on the side of the road overlooking Strohn Lake and Bear Glacier. She walked right up to us and eventually settled under the car for a snooze. We waited for her to resume her merry way before resuming ours. Not sure what kind of grouse. I don't think it's a ptarmigan because I read they have feathered feet. My wild guess based on a quick search would be the sooty grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus). Is she a runaway extra from the movie Insomnia?

the super blood moon 

9/28/2015

 
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location: Dolores Park, San Francisco

spot the Cormorant... 

9/27/2015

 
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location: Trinidad, California
hit 'read more' for a hint....

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bottom of the ferry. beautiful harmony.

9/19/2015

 
location: landing in Tsawwassen

after the pool closes I turn into a duck

9/18/2015

 
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location: New Brighton Park, Vancouver
See here for a companion quote from an Anne Carson short.

early July in the Yukon Flats... 

9/13/2015

 
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location: Alaska, just south of Fort Yukon
It's a flood year (2013). Now and again I hear the plop of a piece of overhanging bank falling into the river. As for the ice chunk, I'm not sure if it formed in the winter or floated there during the spring melt.

Spire by Andy Goldsworthy

9/11/2015

 
For a structure so tall (90 feet) it blends in remarkably well. I got very close before perceiving it.
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location: Presidio National Park, San Francisco
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