Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

We saw this Peregrine Falcon in a dead pine tree that overlooks China Cove at Point Lobos, CA. The thing is that we saw a Peregrine Falcon in that same tree two years ago. I don’t know if it is the same falcon both times, but I’d like to think so. It’s a big tree, with no foliage, on top of a hill overlooking the cliffs of China Cove. It makes for an excellent vantage point. Just the kind of perch that a Peregrine Falcon would love to swoop down from.

We saw Jenny Zigrino perform at the Galleria‘s Helium Club, last Saturday. She headlined the show and her standup act was very funny. Jenny is Dan’s friend. We met her two years ago, when we went out to brunch with her and Dan. We didn’t see her this last trip, because she was on the road. Such is the price of success. In addition to standup she is also acting. She’s in “Bad Santa II” with Billy Bob Thornton that’s due out this Christmas. I’m glad for her success, because Dan’s “got friends with benefits, who can benefit their friends by being friends.”

After her show, Jenny did a meet and greet and we got to speak with her. She was a little concerned that her act might have been too blue, but we assured her that it was not. Later, we heard back through Dan that we were “cute”. This was the second time that one of Dan’s friends labeled us cute. I’m getting a complex.

Point Lobos

Great Blue Heron Fishing from Floating Kelp

Great Blue Heron Fishing from Floating Kelp

Wednesday, we all went to Point Lobos, we being Anne and I, Chris and John, my dad. To my mind, Point Lobos is the best park outside of Forest Park in Saint Louis, but I’m obviously being patently parochial here. Still, it is a great park. Located just south of Carmel on Route 1, it features rugged Pacific coastline, plus abundant flora and fauna. What with the drought though the flora was not much to look at, but there was still plenty of fauna about. Anne and I photographed plenty of different species, but I picked the picture of this very familiar bird to us, a Great Blue Heron, as representative. It was situated in such unusual circumstances, standing on top of floating kelp, but why shouldn’t it be there. It looks like it must be a great fishing spot, except for the occasional carnivorous Harbor Seal, which would swim underneath the kelp bed.