This is not seaworld. This is the great Pacific Ocean. The dolphins were swimming and feeding very close to the shore. At times there seemed to be 10 to 20 swimming along. It was a joyous site to see at 7:30 in the morning before my fiancé and I went to Los Angeles for a…
Category: art
Santa Barbara Acorn Woodpecker
Yesterday from Valerio and Calle Poniente was a Jackaranda tree full of woodpeckers. I caught this one eating an insect.
Tiles from a mural at The Biltmore in Santa Barbara
On the weekend, my fiancé and I took a guest to the Biltmore to see some of the work fiancé does there. I spied this gorgeous tile mural that had me just on my knees.
New QUEER stamp approved.
Get em while they’re legal. Send your celebratory mail. Also if the mail artist world is looking to partake in a good cause… buy a sheet of stamps, and send mail art postcards. 50% of the proceeds from the stamps will go to Equality California. Now you have two designs to choose from.
Birds along the Santa Barbara coast.
Was a good day photographing birds just over the cliffs at Wilcox or better known Douglas Family Preserve. Redtail Hawk, Pelican and Woodpecker.
Red Buddha Stamp
This stamp was approved today. It’s a photograph of a ceramic buddha head I had exhibited in the Buddhas and Birds show in 29 Palms this past April at The Creative Center. Now it’s a stamp, for peace and compassion. Use it on mail art that needs an extra energy lift.
Joni Mitchell …
I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world… Joni Mitchell – Hejira (1994 Live in Japan) … and No, I didn’t make her hair pink. But she sure looks good here. This a stunning performance. Powerful voice. Only place on the web you’ll find Joni Mitchell and Kylie Minogue…
Equality California
magentaRaven has decided to donate 50% of the proceeds for the queer stamp to Equality California for continuing to keep us equal. Founded in 1998, EQCA celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2008, commemorating a decade of building a state of equality in California.
Annie Sprinkle blesses queer stamp by magentaRaven
I emailed Annie Sprinkle yesterday because I knew she had just got married again and again and again and plans to wed again, with the same person 🙂 She wrote me back to my surprise, as celebrities often don’t write back. So, today I asked for her blessing on the new queerly gay stamp that…
Walk above the Pacific coast of Santa Barbara yesterday.
A raven takes off from a branch with a magenta/orange flag, there to alert hang gliders above the ocean at Douglas Family Preserve. Auspicious. Also a common House Finch.
Rare desert mariposa lily.
This past weekend, my bml, or beautiful male lover, soon to be husband and I were at The Palms in Wonder Valley for the Wonder Valley Music Festival. We also got a chance to see the rare mariposa lily and witches hair (Cuscuta californica) a lovely firey orange parasite, in Joshua Tree National Park.
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