News, nature, and community throughout the Emerald Triangle
Zoo Series-Flamingo Daily Photo One drop at a time, the tiny Eureka zoo is making big changes. Not all of them good. Established over 100 years ago, it is one of the smallest facilities to be accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the only one between San Francisco and Southern Oregon. Nestled in the Sequoia Park, an
Read moreJim Kemp (family photo) Visitors to the Humboldt area frequently have encounters that shift their world view. After reading my last post, my handsome and dapper engineer uncle, who while raised here has lived out of the area for many years, sent me an email: Your blog reminds me of a year or two ago while I was visiting your
Read moreMy Child Daily Photo Guest Photographer is (fittingly enough) my child, Clay Church Struggling to appreciate your sometimes less than stellar offspring? Perhaps this bumper sticker might do the trick. This parent apparently felt the sticker failed to sufficiently express the full range of their pride and attempted to ram it and the car stuck to it into something hard–hopefully
Read moreI married my cousin Some responsibility settles on your shoulders like the heavy yoke of an ox cart but other responsibility, no matter its weight, lightens your load and gives joy. This weekend, I married my cousin. (In spite of how the photo looks, I’m performing the ceremony–not wedding my beautiful cousin.)I cried when they asked me to do it,
Read moreMy Husband could be Mad Max Are you prepared? I’m sure not. The current financial crisis fell smack on top of the usual subdued concerns about natural disasters and I started wondering if, well, you know, the world as we know it could end and The Garberville Vet’s Hall would become the Thunderdome and my husband would be Mad Max
Read moreAhhh, It’s Lovely Daily Photo Every wedding is unique–beautiful in its own way but, a staple of nearly every wedding reception is each bride proudly showing her ring to her friends. Here, two professionals, one a teacher and one an engineer, take a moment to engage in traditional oooing and ahhing. They make a sweet picture, don’t they? Yet, I’ve
Read moreStove Daily Photo Even though the spring on the door of the warming compartment expired with a thud last week and the door on the main oven gapes a little stupidly and has for all of my littlest one’s life, I’m not planning on getting a new stove. This one belonged to my grandmother and she got it second hand
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Read moreDragon Heart Tang Soo Do Instructor Becky Rupp Daily Photo Families aren’t always blood related. It is people who care enough about each other to do more than nod sympathetically when listening to another person’s troubles. Our martial art school is serious about training (several of our students have gone on to win regional and world cups in our discipline
Read moreIn memory of Josh Sinoway. Lost sons and shooting stars–bright, beautiful, and too brief. One neighbor to another, we cupped our hands around the news and gently released bits of broken star from one palm to the next until Posted beside the invitation to a celebration (joyous notice of another year spinning the son of another mother further from the
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