Scot and Lot: 2013

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Giraffe

Giraffe, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Santa Barbara Zoo

"Giraffes! -- a People
Who live between the earth and skies,
Each in his lone religious steeple,
Keeping a light-house with his eyes."

Roy Campbell, in "Dreaming Spires"

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Cabo San Lucas Marina

Cabo San Lucas Marina, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

" '...Let us go,' we said, 'into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too.' And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is."
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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"In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are many of people who have gone in for a sandwich." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Hand of Time

Hand of Time, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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“Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears and with your hands on the steering wheel; listen with the palm of your hand on the gear-shift lever; listen with your feet on the floor boards. Listen to the pounding old jalopy with all your senses….”

John Steinbeck, in "The Grapes of Wrath"

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Between Pacific Tides

Between Pacific Tides, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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"During the First World War a new fishery was developed along the coast of California, and in a few years California sardines were found in every grocery store in the land, usually in large oval tins. By the mid-1930's, the annual catch of sardines was reckoned in millions of tons and the economy of Cannery Row was in its palmiest days." -- Ed Ricketts, in "Between Pacific Tides"

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