Eagle Above River Trail

Eagle in the Wild (Tanya photo)

Wild Eagle

We walk a mile or so on the Sacramento River Trail in Redding, CA almost every day and on our New Years Day walk we were lucky enough to see and photograph the bald eagle pictured above for the very first time.

We see other birds daily--hawks, ducks, wild geese and others, but this eagle sighting is unique for us.

It is wonderful that in spite of the awful destruction of habitat around here by humanity in the last hundred years or so--the hunting, placer mining, the dams and all--and the current proximity of so many people with all their city sprawl--a few of the creatures native to the area have managed to somehow survive into the early twenty-first century.

Tomasito, 2009


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Happy New Year

A very Happy New Year

from

Constable Crab, Tanya, Tomasito
and Maggie the Part-time Cat

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Wounded Knee Anniversary

Bloody Snowflake, 29 December, r, 1890


Not so good, Black Elk.

Nothing much has changed.

Tomasito, 2008

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Operations Center

Tomasito Photo, 2008

Here it is--where The Casebook of Constable Crab was born--the center of Ahimsaland and the place where The Imhotep Construction Company has its Operations Center. Our apartment workroom!

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Beaver Dam

(Tomasito photo, Spring 2008)


Beaver Dam

This beaver dam was on a little brook that runs into the Sacramento River about three blocks from our apartment.

The dam was kind of isolated, of course, or it would not last long.

It stood in pretty good shape last spring and through most of the summer, but now it is pretty much destroyed.

The location is rather near the local high school and I suppose the kids couldn't stand having something natural about.

The beavers seem to be gone too. Dogs? Shooters? Anyway they have given up on repairing the dam and have disappeared.

We saw the same thing happen on a tiny neighborhood stream we lived near in Roseville, near Sacramento a couple of years ago--except there the land was cleared to build some commercial buildings.

Isn't it kind of a shame?

Tomasito, 2008


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Merry Christmas

Maggie the Part-time Cat (Tanya photo)

Merry Christmas from Tanya, Tomasito & Maggie!


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Solstice 2008

The Sundial Pedestrian Bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding CA.
(Tanya photo)


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