I realize it’s still autumn. But does this look like December 5? Our trees are still crimson, gold and amber — attributed to minimal rain and a mild autumn. We’re bracing for a storm next week which might send these leaves tumbling. But for now, fall lingers just outside my door.
These photos were taken
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Until this week, I didn’t know how much gratitude I owed Mr. Hulet Hornbeck. The sign below marks the head of a commemorative trail at Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline — a park in the vast and lovely East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD).
When Hornbeck began his tenure as Chief of Land Acquisition for EBRPD
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I’m in the process of uploading some of my favorite Bay Area bird images . . . with more to come as favorites and opportunities arise with my beloved Olympus. Not all links are functioning yet. It’s a work-in-progress: Bird Photo Galleries.

I saw these gigantic creatures slithering through the shallows — whipping up mud with each slap of the tail. They looked like radioactive versions of pond koi, ranging from about two to four feet long. And where I was, it was just me and and wind and the sound of their slither, evoking the Creature
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These are checkerspot butterflies for sure. But when I originally posted the possibility of “Bay” checkerspot on the first photo (taken at Sibley), an astute commenter at Flickr corrected my ID: “Unfortunately that is not a Bay checkerspot butterfly.” Simple as that. Got it. Endangered, not likely.
If it had been a Bay checkerspot, it would
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It’s not a Phil Spector creation (Wall of Sound) — but the Wall of Pez is the product of 15 years of collecting.

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The proprietor at the Burlingame Pez Museum, a collector himself, loves him some Pez. And he’ll make you love Pez with stories about the rarest Pez Dispenser of
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