Folsom, Dore and Pride aren’t the only fairs where you can see bears! Smokey is a traditional VIP at the annual Blackberry Festival in Covelo, California. Here, he greets an admirer and hangs with a bud from the forestry service.
Category Archives: Mendocino County
Only YOU can…fill in the blank. Smokey at the Fair!
Posted in Food, Gardening, Human Animals, Mendocino County, Northern California, Photography, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged Bear, Blackberry Festival, Covelo, Furry, Photography, Smokey
Cal Fire Hotness…
…Mendocino firefighters protect, serve and dress the set at the annual Covelo Blackberry Festival. The event is in its 30th year, and takes place every August in California’s remote Round Valley.
Posted in Food, Gardening, Mendocino County, Military, Northern California, Photography, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged Blackberry Festival, Covelo, Firemen, Hot, Mendocino, Round Valley, Sexy
More Morning Frog
Wet Ass. Deep Grunts. Bulging Eyes. What? Cool morning Frog at Twisted Timbers.
Yes. Gay Highwaymen IS getting all Basho on y’all.
Another Morning Frog here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Gardening, iPhone, Mendocino County, Spirituality, The Buddha Nature
Tagged Animal, Buddha Nature, Frog, Haiku, iPhone, Photography
Morning Frog. Really.
Sitting on its wet ass in a flower pot. the Buddha Nature croaks. 
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Gardening, iPhone, Mendocino County, Photography, The Buddha Nature
Tagged Buddha Nature, iPhoto
Cool Photographer Eric Robinson gets Hotter by the Minute…
Eric Robinson. photo: Gay Highwaymen
Friend of this site Eric Robinson has been shooting us, and our friends for a couple of years now. Tintypes! Ambrotypes! Pics on metal and glass…way old school, 19th century-style. PDQ, he will be a “Master.” No, not like That! His MFA (Master of Fine Arts) show opens in August, and he is already showing all over like the worst exhibitionist ever. His ongoing Leathermen series is part of a larger archival project called Other Ways of Being. Robinson says of his work: “What I seek with my camera is the difference – visible difference – that allows us to identify or disassociate with groups, cultures or communities.” These are important cross-cultural concerns, and Robinson’s unique camera view points our brains at them. Leathermen has already shown three times nationally (Chicago, San Francisco and Vermont) and is BIG in Indonesia, where it is featured in the glossy mag, PhotoArt Contemporary. Cool. Keep watching, ’cause this fantastic old-school shutter-bug boy is going to be BIG. Well. If we have anything to do with it anyway…more here. Enjoy!
Posted in Collecting, Eric Robinson, Indonesia, Leather, Mendocino County, Photography, San Francisco, Southern Illinois
Tagged Ambrotype, Art, BDSM, California, Culture, Eric Robinson, Gay, Indonesia, Kink, Leather, Photography, Sexy, Tintype
Rural Dungeon Still Life…
…often occupied. Momentarily empty. The space used to be a goat barn. Now it is a dungeon. The focus of the photo is a piece of classic dungeon furniture known in the scene as a St. Andrew’s Cross. Site of many a spiritual journey…et cetera.
Posted in DIY and Maker Culture, iPhone, Leather, Mendocino County, Northern California, Photography, Spirituality, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Design, Dungeon, Gay, iPhone, Leather, Photography, Rural, St Andrew's Cross, Still Life
WHAT Kind of Tongue?!
They say there’s one at the bottom of every garden. One at least, and a virtual gaggle in this one. Shot in the Botanical Gardens in Ft. Bragg, California.
Posted in Gardening, Mendocino County, Northern California, Photography, Signage
Tagged Botany, Fairy Tongue, Ft. Bragg, Garden, Gay, iPhone, Mendocino, Photography, Pun, Word Play
On a Mission…surveilling Mormons!
Two Latter Day Saint boys walking in Willits, California. They could be walking to a gym, one to beef up the other to trim down. That would be a good idea. They could be walking to a motel, to check in and fuck each other silly. That would be great! But probably…they are just out to make more Mormons. Everybody needs a hobby. Messing with Jack Mormons is a good one! Surveilling Saints is another. For hunky shirtless Mormon men, visit Mormons Exposed, where you can buy a beefcake calendar called “Men on a Mission.” More soon…
Posted in Mendocino County, Photography, Subcultures, Surveillance, Youth
Tagged Culture, Gay, Jack Mormon, Latter Day Saint, LDS, Mendocino County, Mission, Mormon, Photography, Surveillance, Willits
Wild Turkey Road Kill #2
Running Turkey. Not fast enough…
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Mendocino County, Photography, Spirituality
Tagged Abstraction, Art, Death, Highway, Photography, Roadkill, Turkey
Wild Turkey Road Kill # 1
Flying Turkey hits the road in an act of auto-abstraction. Buzzards delight. CA Hwy 162 near Bloody Run Creek. On the road to Covelo where locals say the Indian Wars are still underway. White and 1st Nation teens, bored, fight. No new thing under a Sunny day. Return via Dos Rios. Two rivers home.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Mendocino County, Photography, Spirituality
Tagged Abstraction, Animal, Art, Death, Highway, Roadkill, Turkey
The Gay Highwaymen 