Ann Gelder ❌👑

@anngelder

Writer, occasional podcaster, visual arts dabbler, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)

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Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· 4d

Work is delayed

A black cat on an office chair staring at the camera with one eye

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· 6d

I forgot how absolutely fascinating this book is. So well written with great characters, a surprising amount of empathy—and so very relevant to our time. (It starts with a real estate deal.)

paperback of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The cover shows a pair of hands reaching out of a coffin.

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· 24d

Very summery in Half Moon Bay today

A dog walking on a beach in front of blue ocean with blue sky above

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· 28d

Some absolutely wild photos from my new Sprocket Rocket camera.

Triple exposure of a dune covered in yellow and white fl

Yellow lupines with blue sky and clouds behind

A beach with distant figures walking on it and clouds above

Many huge Echium plants against gray sky

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· 29d

Summer colors in Half Moon Bay

Yellow evening primroses, white buckwheat, orange poppies, and green leaves

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jul 13

They have found their place

Two black cats under a poster saying Tú perteneces aquí

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jul 12

Weather in Half Moon Bay

Clouds and patches of blue sky over the ocean with green brush and yellow flowers in the foreground

Fog and clouds with patches of blue sky over the ocean with a small tree and yellow flowers in front

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jul 5

Not great that this is evidently the work of ants, but also damn impressive

A hollowed out cellophane wrapper in the shape of a candy cane

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 26

Half Moon Bay is in bloom!

coastal buckwheat with round white blooms

Yellow and white lupines, yellow seaside woolly sunflower, white yarrow against gray sky

Yellow primroses, orange California poppies, white coastal buckwheat

Yellow primroses along a paved path with gray sky above

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 15

Sorry about all the reflections on this one. I stared at this constantly as a child wondering what the heck…it is called The Saxophonist

A black and white abstract print of a man playing a saxophone

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 15

Interesting! My mother was friends with his brother Carroll who was a visual artist and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art. I inherited several of his prints. Here is one.

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 13

More from Cotoni National Monument

White thistle seed heads surrounded by dry grass

Hills covered in scrub and white flowers

Dry grass and wildflowers with fog and blue sky above

Fog bank and blue sky over grassland with a sliver of ocean visible

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 13

From newly opened Cotoni National Monument today

Fog bank over the ocean with blue sky above and dry grassland in the foreground

Thistles and dry wildflowers with fog behind

A canyon covered in scrub and blue sky above

Yellow wildflowers and dry grass with blue sky above

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 11

From today’s hike in Butano State Park

A spiderweb backlit by sun surrounded by leaves

A grove of redwood trees with blue sky behind them

A meadow with horsetail and purple and white flowers

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 11

Unclear why, but this single Birkenstock sandal has suddenly become *the* prized possession.

A black cat closely guarding a sandal on a patterned rug

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 9

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Jun 2

Yellow, white, gray, green

Lupines and cow parsley against gray sky

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 31

Gorgeous day at Point Reyes!

A meadow with dead and living alders with lots of greenery and blue sky

A calm ocean with blue sky and a bluff in the background and dry grass in the foreground

Purple and white flowers and greenery against blue sky

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 28

Today’s walk in Half Moon Bay

Blue sky with white clouds over yellow flowers and a patch of ocean

Blue and gray clouds over orange and yellow flowers and green shrubs

A bird on a dead tree limb with cypress branches and clouds in the background

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 24

The formerly feral kitty is asleep on my feet, so I will be here for the next five hours.

A black cat curled up on the poster’s socked foot

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 21

I love this idea, so I took this to @liccardo.house.gov ‘s local office this morning. The staffer loved it!

Cutout of a paper doll surrounded by hearts. Text says No more lost childhoods. Stop family detention. Defund Ice.

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 19

Bright oranges, yellows, and greens on a rare sunny day in Half Moon Bay

Orange and yellow flowers among green leaves

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 3

The velella velella are back on the beach in Half Moon Bay. This species of hydrozoa is also called “by the wind sailors.”

Waves coming ashore with clouds above and clumps of deep blue sea creatures (sadly deceased) on the sand

Close up of blue translucent sea creatures on the beach

Translucent sea creatures with a shoe for scale. They are about 2 inches long.

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· May 3

Thank you for writing this. I loved dinosaurs as a kid and Zallinger’s illustrations in this book were a big reason why. I still have it…

Cover of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles with a large plant eating dinosaur in the foreground and carnivore in the background

Title page with illustration credit to Zallinger and a dinosaur skeleton

Interior spread with illustrations of horned dinosaurs and a TRex

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 27

Current work environment

Legs with a laptop on them with two black cats on the left and one on the right

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 22

If you’re around Half Moon Bay/Coastside, please join us for Words and Wine, Wednesday, May 6, 5 pm, at the Coastal Vine in Moss Beach. Readings! Books for sale! Food! Wine! Other beverages! It’ll be fun.

Words and Wine, presented by Coastside News and the Coastside Writers Group. Wednesday May6, 5-7 pm, The Coastal Vine, 2305 Carlos Street, Moss Beach. Coastside writers reading from their recent works and signing books: Ann Gelder, Richard Holeton, Wendy Tokunaga

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 21

When you stare into the abyss and the abyss sort of sleepily stares back

A black cat between couch cushions looking at the camera with one eye

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 19

In honor of Tim Curry’s birthday, here’s a picture of Dante with Tim’s memoir, which is a lot of fun. (And what a great cover photo!)

A black cat with the book Vagabond by Tim Curry

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 11

Weather in Half Moon Bay

Gray and white clouds with blue sky in between, small human figures below, and green vegetation in the foreground

Ann Gelder ❌👑@anngelder· Apr 10

Beautiful day in Half Moon Bay today