Just because it’s cute. Here is some video the CHP posted of a local officer lending a helping hand to a wayward family of Canada geese that he found wandering along the side of U.S. Highway 101 while on patrol south of Eureka. Enjoy!
Frivolity
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North Coast Night Lights: Musings at Moonstone Cave
We stood in the mouth of the cavern, looking out through a great broken crack in the blackness into the night as if through a window into another world. It fired our imaginations, conjuring mysteries in the night. What is it about caves that stirs us so inside? My thoughts wandered and stories began to […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Dawn Chases the Milky Way
I pulled into the turnout and shut off the engine and lights. The stars jumped out and I joined them. Above the horizon the core of our galaxy glowed in the last darkness of the night. I smiled. Hello, Darkness, my old friend, I thought. It seemed apt, though it was the sight of the […]
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Hello there, Super Snow Moon
Move over Super Blood Wolf Moon, it’s the Super Snow Moon’s turn to shine. Sure it’s not as snazzy a name and Tuesday’s moon lacks that added je ne sais quoi of a lunar eclipse, but the celestial orb will “look extremely large when it rises and sets,” according to NASA, the result of an […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Grandmother Rock
It was nearly dark when I arrived at the Trinidad Head parking area. Sunset gazers had seen the sun set some 45 minutes earlier and were heading for their cars when I struck north up the beach. Night was descending and in the waning light I could see the footprints of the evening’s activity in […]
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This is Going to Hurt a Little: Photos from the Inked Hearts Expo
The 10th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo at Blue Lake Casino hosted 35 tattoo artists and other vendors last Thursday through Sunday. Organizers Ted and Amy Marks brought in a familiar line up of tattoo artists, including Liz Cook, Lisa Hower, Tye Harris and Liz Venom, among others, as well as a good mix of […]
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‘Sweet Victory’ for SpongeBob Fans at the Super Bowl? Stay Tuned
Fans of SpongeBob SquarePants aren’t looking back in their months-long effort to have “Sweet Victory” sung during half time at the Super Bowl as an ode to Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the fantastical world Bikini Bottoms, who died Nov. 27. More than 1 million people have signed the Change.org petition to honor the 57-year-old Humboldt […]
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North Coast Night Lights: A Bit of Whimsy
It’s not for everyone to take the world seriously all of the time, though some people probably need to, at least a little bit. But I don’t think I’m one of them. I surmise folks like that need people like me to keep things in balance, so this week I am taking creative license to […]
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American Pickers Wants to See Your Junk
How’s that KonMari purge going? While you’re folding your clothes into little squares, you may be wondering what to do with the road signs, vintage car parts and random advertising ephemera you’ve got stacked to the rafters in your garage. If you’ve got the right kind of stash, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz from the […]
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Photos from the Beaver Sisters
The Beaver sisters (played by local artists Sarah McKinney, Maggie Lally and Janessa Johnsrude) transformed Eureka’s Synapsis Nova on Friday into a setting for an angst-ridden fundraiser telethon with a major problem: No one calls in to donate money. The plot’s backstory for The Beaver Sisters Present: The Beaverettes is that the toxin-laden river is threatening […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Cooks Valley Bridge
In 1993, I spent a year in Chicago. Even then I loved photographing at night; I have always been drawn to it. I would use either available light or introduce light of my own, painting it into a scene much as I do now. I wasn’t comfortable photographing with models then, confining myself mostly to […]
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‘Tis the Ugly Sweater Season: Photos from Sunday’s Run
The third annual Ugly Holiday Sweater Run on Sunday had runners and walkers in the1-mile and 5-km races wearing examples of taste-deficient knitted nightmares. The races began and ended on the Arcata Plaza. The family-friendly event is a fundraiser for Humboldt Educare, organized by Arcata Main Street. Prizes were given out for age-bracket winners by […]