Author: Steve

  Like a little mouse running up and down the tree.   Gravity does not apply.   A migrant mostly just passing through, but a few winter here way down south.  

  The cooper’s hawk?     That was my bird count for that spot for the day.  One.  

  An historical artifact A business card from Dad, circa 1960, I’ve been hanging on to since then.   I looked up all those trailer brands.  It doesn’t look like any of them have been made since the 60s.  Mostly they look like this now:   Or this:   I remember them shiny and fine when they were new on the lot though.   Love the phone number on the card.  5 digits, with a two-letter prefix:  GA for Garfield in North Long Beach; our home number in Long Beach having GE for Geneva.  Before prefixes; in Seal Beach our number was 98779.   I looked up the trailer lot location on Google Earth. The trailer lot then is a storage center now.   The link to the google earth view showing Dad’s commute from Long Beach to North Long Beach. Commute map   And what the heck, a street view of our house. 321 Carroll Park West   Hey look.  The Christmas lights I put up are still there!   You can zoom out and see the neighborhood.  Carroll Park; a very cool place to grow up.  

    Except when it can’t be helped.    

  I got everything right yesterday about the green kingfisher except the part about the green kingfisher.  The green kingfisher pictures I sent out were really of a belted kingfisher.   My bad.  Forget everything I said about green kingfishers.  The belted kingfisher is ubiquitous.