hawk dancing
Jul. 3rd, 2009 | 03:12 pm
location: Lafayette
music: Unwoman
Yesterday these two hawks were flying in dancing patterns (together, apart, around, together, apart) for awhile, but I never saw them touching.
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strange kitteh
Jun. 23rd, 2009 | 06:43 pm
location: East Bay, CA
mood: cheerful
music: Unwoman
Patty likes to lick the bottom of these sheer curtains. She has peed on them in the past. Then I have treated them with natural enzyme stuff. Then she licks them every night. She's a twisted cat!
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scorpion in Contra Costa County
Jun. 10th, 2009 | 02:50 pm
location: Lafayette
music: Unewman
I think this scorpion is the Uroctonus mordax mordax. Does that mean "show me the money" in latin? or does it mean "Hey is this a Hawaii state quarter? That's the only one I don't have."
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My neighbor found this scorpion in his brick pile. I took her photo and returned her to the neighbor. I hope the kids release it back into the wild.
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Where does the time go?
Jun. 7th, 2009 | 09:09 pm
My nephew Joel Griffin has always been a character--personable, musical, funny.
Over the years he has made friends in Slovakia, Roswell, Coos Bay, and other places in between.
He's a grown man with a big smile who just graduated from Marshfield High School.
Seems like yesterday he was playing miniature golf in Roswell, New Mexico, using a club that was taller than he was.
Memories...
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little friend
May. 12th, 2009 | 06:08 pm
location: California
music: Unwoman
After he sat on my hand for awhile...
. . .he jumped on my shoulder and tried to eat the polkadots on my shirt.
(Kat's note: I know that you're supposed to leave baby birds alone when you find them on the ground. But I didn't find this guy on the ground, he was in a cat's mouth. The cat was going to torture him and then NOT eat him.)
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4th & mission
May. 10th, 2009 | 07:45 pm
location: Lafayette
music: Unwoman
OK, two questions about this photo from May 7, 2009 at 4th and Mission in SF:
2. Why are they throwing it into the street?
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Mr Turkey
Apr. 14th, 2009 | 06:56 pm
location: California
music: Unwoman
I shot this photo (here's a closeup of its head) of a turkey in the neighbor's yard yesterday. As I stared at it, the deathlike, beaky head (with brooding eyebrow) looked familiar.
I just finally figured out who the turkey looks like:
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death and ashes
Apr. 8th, 2009 | 01:55 pm
For yesterday's monthly museum field trip, my group chose the Columbarium of San Francisco, just off Anza near Stanyon. The building itself has remarkable ornamentation and baroque flair, and the contents of such a building--not only people's cremated remains, but other memorabilia as well--make a person feel a bit sad and sentimental and touched.
Lots of gay couples have chosen to remain here together, making this monument a sturdy piece of evidence for legalizing the relationship held already by same-sex couples. Together in eternity.
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spring hike proves that bugs and flowers are all out
Apr. 1st, 2009 | 03:42 pm
music: Unwoman
The Painted Lady butterflies are migrating through the area. I "captured" one with camera on my Lafayette Ridge hike today--she was hanging out in some vetch.
And here's a bumblebee getting a snack from a lupine--you can see how he has manipulated the stamen or whatever (see the pollen on the end) out of its pouch, the better to grab pollen off it.
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to M on his 13th birthday
Mar. 9th, 2009 | 09:01 am
BEST BOY, I’m writing you a poem for your 13th birthday. Will you ever see this? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. But I still had to write it because of giant Xmas stockings that you could climb into, and happy times at our house building lego wonders (those fantastic, impressive engineering projects) and many other good things. I wrote this poem for the world’s smoothest sock-floor slider, indoor-scooter rider, guitar player, remote-control-vehicle operator, imaginative artist, and fort-building, snowball-preserving, kite-flying (and DOUBLE-kite-flying) book-devouring BEST BOY. I’m writing you a poem for your 13th birthday.
PIRATE KITE
I want to fly a pirate kite with you, here, on my hill.
First we'll make the black kite skin and frame, then test different tails.
Of course you should draw the skull and bones--
you’re good at that, you’re good at everything.
(we miss you)
Our kite will soar and swoop menacingly and pirate-y.
Those kite birds—the raptors who think they are the power of this hill--
will get scared out of their talons when they see our kite
and they will hover at the Andersons' house, instead, as if they wanted to go there.
But it won’t be what they wanted. We don’t always get what we want.
(I miss you)
Let’s remember this:
Sometimes when the wind falls off a bit
and the string goes slack, you think the kite is gone
until the tug returns, and you are reassured.
Even when the string breaks
(it just happens, it’s not anyone’s fault)
you may still find the kite again, eventually, if you love it enough.
This is not the end. I’m not saying goodbye, because I know that I will see you again.
BEST BOY, I wrote you this poem for your 13th birthday.
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Secrets
Mar. 5th, 2009 | 01:29 pm
music: Unwoman
The new exhibit at the Bedford gallery, where I am a docent, is call PostSecret. Frank Warren--the guy who put collected the postcards, put the books together, and put the exhibit together--spoke to our docent group yesterday about the exhibit, about the project, and about why people have secrets. He talked about the people who have submitted the secrets anonymously on postcards over the past four years (mostly female, mostly younger).
His public evening talk was sold out--he has quite a following. Some folks have had their tickets for months.
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Overturn Prop. 8
Mar. 5th, 2009 | 12:45 pm
music: Unwoman
Last night I joined a lot of demonstrators who massed at Market & Castro for a march down to SF City Hall steps, to demonstrate for equality, since the arguments about Prop 8 were to be held today at the Calif Supreme Court.
For most of the march, I was a few steps behind the married couple holding this banner. Their marriage and so many other is at stake in the Court's decision about Prop 8. For more about today's opening arguments, go here.
It was an incredibly upbeat, happy, harmonic group.
My voice got worn out, but I'm so happy to have been there.
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Waterfowl galore
Feb. 21st, 2009 | 06:18 pm
music: Unwoman
There are birds migrating through Northern California on the Pacific Flyway, and there are the birds living there all year.
Here is the scene early this morning at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.
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©2009 Kat Mulkey
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Kites
Feb. 21st, 2009 | 05:58 pm
music: Unwoman
These two kites were really going at it in an aerial ballet, or battle, or mating ritual.
This is just one of many kite and other bird photos that we (me, sister Jennifer, niece Julie) got this weekend.
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©2009 Kat Mulkey
Lucky Jennifer, she lives just a block from where these kites hang out.
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Hawk
Feb. 21st, 2009 | 05:43 pm
music: Unwoman
©2009 Kat Mulkey
In one of my fav photos from our Pacific Flyway photo field trip this weekend, you can see a hawk (Cooper's? Sharp-shinned?) clutching a vole or other small, brown, furry critter in its talons. This shot was taken in West Sacramento, near the Port of Sacramento.
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Napa Valley Mustard
Feb. 19th, 2009 | 01:19 pm
music: Unwoman
©2009 Kat Mulkey
(is it spring yet?)
The mustard is in bloom in the Napa Valley vineyards. Its golden brightness makes me happy.
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ewwww...chlorine in your food?
Feb. 19th, 2009 | 10:59 am
music: Unwoman
Bleached flour is treated with flour bleaching agents to whiten it (freshly milled flour is yellowish) and to give it more gluten-producing potential. Oxidizing agents are usually employed, most commonly organic peroxides like acetone peroxide or benzoyl peroxide, nitrogen dioxide, or chlorine.
(this is from here)
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Unwoman+Radiohead Hooping List
Feb. 15th, 2009 | 01:21 pm
music: Unwoman
1. Habit (
2. Bodysnatchers (Radiohead, In Rainbows)
3. Knowledge Scars (
4. Where I End and You Begin (Radiohead, Hail to the Thief)
5. HSEN-423 (
6. 15 Steps (Radiohead, In Rainbows)
7. Envy (
8. There There (Radiohead, Hail to the Thief)
For a really fun almost-37-minute workout!
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photos from zombie prom
Feb. 7th, 2009 | 10:39 am
music: Unwoman
It was fun. I'd love to see some photos.
