Oakland Egrets
I posted a few egret shots to Flickr (taken yesterday on the estuary near the Coliseum) for commenter Wordnerd’s sake (Wordnerd is gaga for egrets).
I posted a few egret shots to Flickr (taken yesterday on the estuary near the Coliseum) for commenter Wordnerd’s sake (Wordnerd is gaga for egrets).
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Fantastic! How do you get them to co-operate like that? We are negotiating a similar deal with their Gloucester cousins…
August 11th, 2009 at 8:45 amThose egrets are truly beautiful and tranquil. A special treat these days. Perhaps the egret can see ripples in the water, signifying fish, better when perching on trees.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:53 pmEgrets are notoriously nearsighted. They peer over the water from a height of about a foot looking for fish. The perching must be to cool off in the breeze.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:06 amThat new photo is great too, even if egretless. Paved pastel paradise!
August 15th, 2009 at 3:53 pmAs Joni Mitchell said, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. The big empty parking lot in that photo actually belongs to the closed car dealership that was being advertised on the billboard in this old post from March. (Everything is connected, even if the evidence is…er…fragmentary.) Maybe if they had hung on until the cash for clunkers subsidies began, they’d be thriving instead of dead. The building in the background of the photo isn’t the dealership—it’s the back of Oakland’s own Walmart, off Hegenberger Road. I ride by it on the way to work when I have to work in San Leandro.
August 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm“Everything is connected…” I was reading Pickwick Papers this summer which I had always mistakenly thought was the “serious” Dickens and found out that it’s like Don Quixote, which I probably remember too badly to make the comparison with. And I thought that blogs–this one at least–seem like a modern version of the genre.
August 16th, 2009 at 6:22 amLike Don Quixote because it’s silly to the point of slapstick, or because it’s an episodic jumble which aspires to be more than the sum of its parts? The contrast with “serious” suggests the former, but the analogy to blogs suggests the latter. Or maybe you meant something else entirely.
August 16th, 2009 at 9:41 pmReplace the first “or” in your comment with “and”. Replace the “but” with another “and”. Delete the sentence that starts with “Or”.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:02 am