Now for something entirely different!
I've been reviewing photos from Baja's Meling Ranch from trips I've taken over the last ten years.
I'll be posting more photos soon of birds that I've seen there.
But here's a photo I came across from what I think was my first trip to Meling Ranch, in 2011.
The owners of the ranch gave us a tour, and opened up for us one of their cottages which was not yet being used for guests.
We came across this pile of books, which is a time-capsule of 1960's popular fiction!
Erle Stanley Gardner, of course, is the author of the Perry Mason series, popularized by the 60s TV show starring Raymond Burr (as well as many movies starring other actors in earlier decades). The yellow title to the left is "The Case of the Demure Defendant," a typical Perry Mason title. The Perry Mason books, as well as the earlier movies, are more racy than the very understated characters familiar to us played by Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, et. al.
I'm intrigued that W. Somerset Maugham (perhaps my favorite author!) takes top billing, because he wrote the introduction to Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. (the book at the top of the picture)
And hiding below the Return to Peyton Place book (which I have not yet read or seen) is The Sandpiper (the book with the blue cover), a novelized version of the 60s movie starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint. I'm pretty sure I saw that on Turner Classic Movies!
More birds coming soon!
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