whirlwind show and tell

Monday, oct. 9, 2006   |   0 comments

And now I present to you a sampling of photos (it is a small sampling; I am not so great at keeping my camera both adequately charged and at my side) from my journeys over the past month or so:

This (from the jaunt to Manton, CA, this past weekend) is bootmaker Jack’s handsome and very relaxed gentleman horse, Dandy.

I fed Dandy a handful of cherry tomatoes, which Kristin and I picked fresh from Jack’s garden, and those lips were huge and muscular and very soft, much like my heart.

A sample of the fine views and also the well-preserved Tule Elk, which Marco and I spied while hiking around Tomales Point last weekend. (Oh wait, I didn’t even take this photo, Marco did.) Not only do they have multiple harems of elk out there (for that is what they’re called, these clusters comprised of one bull elk and his many maidens: “harems”), but the trail is also home to an assortment of nice middleaged men (presumeably organized and sanctioned by Point Reyes National Seashore officials) who stand along the trail and ask you, in gentle tones, if you’d like to get a closer look at the elk via their pre-focused spotting scopes. It may pay to note that, contrary to the instict that may urge you, as a city person, to ignore or even walk briskly past a stranger who offers you a private viewing of an elk harem, these men are perfectly safe. They may even have an authentic elk antler for you to handle.

Marco and Piggy at the dog-friendly Pescadero Beach, sometime in September.

More Piggy at Pescadero.

And finally: the Elephant Super Carwash in Seattle, the one and only thing I photographed during that entire trip. And, as you can see from this Elephant Super Flickr cluster (sent to me by the lovely Inger), this really is a wildly snap-tempting subject.