Photos and Essays by Brian A. Hopkins

"It is the tale, not he who tells it"
-- Stephen King

• Critters

  • Baby Snake, Jun 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Big Snake! May 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Butterfly Day, Apr 2012, (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • A Rhinoceros at Road's End, Apr 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Ducks!, Oct 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Baby Birds on the Front Porch, Jun 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Prayer for the Flying, Jul 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Insects (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Critters (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Reptiles and Amphibians, Feb 2009

  • Pride Rock Wildlife Refuge, Aug 2004

  • "The Spider Outside My Window," 2001

  • "Spiders and Snakes and Bunnies, Oh My!" 2002

• Adventures

  • Skydiving, Jun 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Pensacola Again, May 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Feb 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Pensacola, Feb 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Baltimore, Sep 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Baltimore National Aquarium, Sep 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Return to Pensacola Beach, Aug 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Those Bastards at the Office Sent to Florida! Jul 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • "Pura Vida!" -- Costa Rica, 1999

  • Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, 2002

  • New Mexico and Carlsbad Caverns, 2002

   

• My Dogs (Facebook Photo Galleries)

  • Lucky and the Flowers, Jul 2012

  • Gracie Gets a Bath, Jun 2012

  • Dawgs, 2011-2012

  • Gator and the Alien, Nov 2011

  • The Pack Hunts Again, Oct 2011

  • Evening Walk, Sep 2011

  • "It's the Great Pumpkin, Gator Dawg!" Aug 2011

  • Gator and the Pool, Jul 2011

  • Do Your Dogs Eat These Too? Jul 2011

  • "Oh, Crap! Not Grooming Day Again, Dammit!" Jul 2011

  • "Let's Play Ball!" May 2011

  • Bartie and Gator AFTER their Haircuts, Mar 2011

  • "Woo Hoo Hoo, You'll Never Catch Me with those Short L'il Legs!" Mar 2011

• Other Stuff

  • Oklahoma City Zoo, Jun 2012 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • Oklahoma Fires, 11 Mar 2011 (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • 10 May 2010 Tornado (Facebook Photo Gallery)

  • "Full of Blood: an Essay on Vampirism," 1996

  • Eulogy for Dietmar Trommeshauser, 1998

  • "FTL Travel: the Realities of an SF Cliché," 1998

  • "The Broken Leg Story," 1998

"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood."
-- Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories