Barbara J. King

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Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.

The bird has a yellow breast, yellow patch on black head, light bill- and is pretty big!
Three colorful panels at the Guilford welcome center on I 91 welcome drivers to Vermont. Orange and flame-colored autumn trees and cows catch the eye.
The cover is a black background with white letters and a swath of blue, in the middle of which is a wide-open green eye with a black rabbit at the iris. There's a praising blurb by Ed Park.
A large and drug-altered calico cat rests in a wire carrier on a veterinary table.
The cover shows a scene drawn with buildings, an angel with wings, possibly- I am not yet sure- a body.
Photographed by me yesterday in my Virginia neighborhood, this turkey vulture is perched low in the tree canopy. The large bird is mostly brown with a red head.
The cover is bright yellow. The title bisects a small image of a woman stylized in red with black hair with arms thrown up in the air and face tilted up.
Close up of the head, alert ears, and partial body of a brown cottontail rabbit standing on bright green grass in our back yard. This rabbit and two others comes to eat bird seed fallen onto the ground.
The cover of this memoir is black with a large figure of a woman draped in a black voluminous dress dotted with purple stars and pale face partially visible
The photo shows for Hayes Virginia a meteorological statistic right now of 97 degrees F, heat index 113.
A small raccoon with white and black face and ringed tail visible eats seeds from below our backyard bird feeder.
The title is Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. There's a large eyeball on the cover- green with black center and a figure that looks like a rabbit to me in there as well.
The book title is The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry. The cover is off white with two colorful splashes, the top one sky blue with two white birds, the bottom one red with a deer-like animal and tree.
The cover is red-orange threaded with black, with a cutout hole in the middle showing the figure of a man in black in the mist. Stephen King's blurb is "One gorgeous read."
The cover features green sea waves below a gray sky filled with blackbirds; there's a black rift/tear in the sky over which the word 'Stories' is printed.
A bright blue bird sits in a bright green bush. The bird's dark eye and light-colored bill is clearly seen.
The book title is Frenzy. The cover shows a green sea with waves topped by a grey-white sky through which blackbirds fly-- and a black patch torn through the fabric of the sky, with the word 'Stories' across it.
The hawk is seen standing on green grass in profile, yellow-orange eye alert and legs robust!
White puffy clouds in the Virginia sky surround patches of beautiful sea-blue and wispy pointillist clouds. At the right edge, part of a green tree is visible.
The cover shows a riderless, saddled brown-red horse standing on green grass alone against a deep blue sky.
Two square decorative pillows have a white background and colorful bluish octopus bodies with arms shown in motion/ in anatomical detail.
This banner gives the Sailfest name and June 12-14 dates.
An American crow stands in green grass with a piece of white bread in their open mouth, just before dunking it in the water bowl.
The striking black, grey, and white cover shows a woman's face floating, face up, on the surface of water.
A large calico cat is photographed from above as she rests on beige tile with her legs straight out and head twisted up towards the camera.
A northern cardinal male stands on a wooden ledge at our house with head crest erect.
A black rat snack climbs up the red brick of our house in Virginia. The snake is about five feet long stretched out but here is kinked as he/she follows the lay of the brickwork.
The cover is a deep blue with a close-up head shot photograph of Auster in shades, leaning in to Hustvedt who is laughing with her eyes closed.
Three crows and a water dish- The two adults are standing on green grass on either side of the dish. They've just taken in water from the dish, and now the juvenile (with brown head) stands IN the dish- a moment after this photo the young one took a bath.
The book cover is a deep blue, with a photograph in the center of Auster from the neck up in shades, inches from Hustvedt who smiles broadly with her eyes closed. They look happy.
I photographed this oil painting showing George Washington covered by the mouth down by brown-gold canvas strips with text from Washington's will from 1799.
Seven Canada geese are shown in this picture, approaching a wooden bridge over a creek. In front are three fluffy goslings next to presumably a parent, with three other geese behind.
The cover is sky blue and white, with a stylized white flowery plant design and with small images depicting reindeer, a snowy landscape, and a bundled-up couple walking hand in hand. It’s noted that this novel won Sweden's best book of the year.
The mom and fluffy babies rest at the verge of road/grass while the papa looks in in a protective stance.
A large calico cat sleeps on a piece of white cardboard on the floor. She lays on her side with one paw curled under near her face.
The book title is These Bodies Ain't Broken. The cover background is red with an image of a girl outside under a night sky using what may be a cane, but she is also depicted standing inside an open mouth with teeth and trees/vines. Anyway it's a cooler cover than I can explain.
The sepia-toned cover image shows Gornick as a young girl with a bow in her hair in mutual embrace with her mother, who is wearing a flower in her hair. The two are standing outdoors looking off to the side, not directly at the photographer.
A pair of bald eagles stands a few meters apart in a scrubby patch of greenery. They are quite close to our house's outdoor wooden deck which is partially visible as well.
This is a close-up of a male mounting a female. I take close-up pictures for clear views of shell patterns to establish IDs of individuals in our yard.
The orange-red cover features a black palm tree, dripping black.
A large calico cat stands on a narrow windowsill next to a blue curtain. The large window shows green bushes outdoors- those bushes are a bird landing place.
The bird stands atop a white-streaked pillar overlooking a Virginia waterway. The body is white and light gray, the top of the head black, and red-orange bill.
I'm holding Jordan Harper's novel, out today, called A Violent Masterpiece. It's bright orange-red in color with an image of a totally black, and black-dripping, palm tree at the center.
A red-colored house finch male perches on the edge of a tightly constructed but messy nest at the top of a white pillar on our front porch. The young one nearest him has their mouth wide open.
This column by Franklin focuses on 'Great literary openers' and praises VanderMeer's opening to Annihilation, the first Southern Reach novel.
The cover is black-gray with an oblong cellphone-shaped brown image giving title and author. In the background beyond the book that I am holding we see a glimpse of a large floor-to-ceiling bookcase.
A calico cat stands on beige tile with a rainbow-colored wand toy draped from her head.
The vulture perches atop a tree trunk with green leaves and blue sky in the background. Their rather small (vs body) head is brown, neck is black, abundant body feathers are brown and white.
The book cover is bright pink with a central image of a marble-like statue of a person whose hand is lifting up a garment to show a thigh.
The photo shows an editor's note from today's print version of the NY Times Book Review. It explains, naming name and date of review, a freelance writer's failure to remove material from his review that he imported from another newspaper using an AI tool.
The photo shows a tightly woven vertical basket with an opening used to trap eels.
A box turtle, I believe a male because of eye color, proceeds slowly through stubby green grass with two yellow flowers visible. His head and neck are orange and black, and his shell is a duller yellower and black.
Dr. Veliz speaks on stage wearing a red jacket and black pants.
A male eastern bluebird, with his light blue- white- rusty orange colors, perches high in a tree canopy.
The cover features a dark, remote rocky and treed landscape -- and a blurb from Carmen Maria Machado saying the novel is 'a masterpiece.'
Close up of the body of a large calico cat with brown black and white face, staring at the camera as she rests on beige tile.
The book cover features a pastel-colored natural landscape and a superb review quote from the New York Times.
A stretched-out tuxedo cat has placed one leg atop the leg of a person-- me--- on a couch. Marie rests in between me and a book by Stewart O’Nan that I am about to pick up.
The cover shows an exploding volcano and a blue sky with stylized moon and stars. An circle notes the novel was chosen for Reese's Book Club