Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Thursday, November 28, 2019

From Beowulf to Milton's Satan!

800 or so years in 16 or so weeks:
Literary Survey
and Vision-Quest (or so I hope)

Join the fun at CCSF in San Francisco

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Planning The Class



We’ll start the semester with a viewing of Ridley Scott’s first feature film The Duellists, and then proceed to the following texts in an order I haven’t quite fathomed or fashioned yet:

Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing;
Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac;
Byron’s Selected Poems;
143 rather short poems; 
a handful of stories by de Maupassant;
a handful of tales by Poe;
Shelley’s Frankenstein;
and Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.






Thursday, October 31, 2019

Captain, Needing Solace


Captain, reminding me that I am not supposed to be away from home for more than a day at a time.  I'd just come back from three days down in Monterey this summer.

He may not be a dog, but he's a good boy.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Rising and Falling: Purple Urchin, Abalone
















Increasing, marauding hoards of purple urchins cause kelp barrens, which leads to undernourished abalone, depleted populations of abalone and all the other creatures that belong in the kelp-ecosystems.

Very sad.

Friday, August 23, 2019

Entitled


"Now that I see your full name, I have to say this:
'Matthew Duckworth . . .
. . . Earl of Sandwich.'"

--clerk at the hardware store



Saturday, August 17, 2019

Sub-Tidal Still-Life



My mood improves, goes up, the more time I spend down below . . . .


Random Paddle Shots








Wishing I were on this jaunt right now . . . .

Flowers












Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.

My mother and father happily visited these gardens many times.

Friday, August 16, 2019

Pillars of Atlantis








The names and geography of the adventure tales of my childhood are never that far away from me.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Friday, August 9, 2019

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Sofia












My trusty steed.
August 5th adventures.