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© 2013 Devon Cattell,
Unauthorized use or
reproduction prohibited
I was raised in Champaign, Illinois
(faculty brat - University of
Illinois). In 1975, I married a wonderful
man, Ron Spohrer - we divorced
after three years, but remained
friends and kept in contact until his
untimely death on October 19th, 2011.
In 1979 I came to Stanford with
a wonderful
man, Chris Bowen - we split up
after 5 years and he went off to
Greece where he teaches math.
Then, after living together for 5
years, I married Dan
in 1988. He divorced me
"midlife" in December, 2001. I'm
beginning to think it's easier to have
a relationship with my cats (though
they lack one important ability...).
In 1982, I received my
B.A. in French, then
worked at the Stanford Law Library for
20 years. I
now live nearby in the Santa
Cruz Mountains. I enjoy
gardening (you can see mine below in My Gardens),
I like to listen to books on tape
(mysteries), and watch
old
films especially ones from the 40's
and 50's (Hitchcock, Cary Grant,
Bogart, Thin Man movies, . . .) and
even occasionally newer ones
if anyone bothers to write good dialog
(When Harry Met Sally) or plot (Harry
Potter). My
current passion is animal
photography. You can see some in
the column to the left and many more
below in My
Animal Photos.
My
Family
© 2013 Devon Cattell,
Unauthorized use or reproduction
prohibited
Here
are some photos of my family
over the years.
You can tell we're Cattell's, we're
swell!
; - )
I've
compiled a memorial to my Father, who
passed away on February 2, 1998, here.
I've posted the Cattell
coat of arms (from 3 different
sources) in Word format here.
I had posted a family
tree here, but because of people's
concerns about privacy I've removed it
- sorry!
Email
me if
you have questions about it.
©
2013 Devon
Cattell, Unauthorized use or
reproduction prohibited
(In case you don't have legal counsel at
hand, this means feel free to print my
photos, but not to sell them)
Birding
Sites
©
2013
Devon Cattell, Unauthorized
use
or reproduction prohibited
You can see
some of my bird
photography in the My
Animal Photos
section above.
*I'm
published ! *
The local Audubon Society
published an article I
wrote in their March/2002
issue, "Birding
with Bad Eyesight".
ENature.com
has great field guides for
birds and other
wildlife. Also, you
can access local area
specific wildlife guides
by entering your zip code.
There are
great photos of many local
birds at this Stanford
site: http://www.stanford.edu/~petelat1/
If you want
to go birding in the Bay
Area, many local birding
and hiking events are
listed on this birding calendar.
My Motto
There is no accounting for taste
- taste is subjective.
Or
as Ricky Nelson said:
"You
can't please everyone, so
you've got to please
yourself."
My father's
variation on this was:
"To all of us
there come days when the
earth is stale, flat and
tedious . . . at that
extremity of misanthropy
some men start a
revolution and others
take to drink; but for
my part I go to sea.
Every man to his own
recreation."
 Click
here if you want to email me.
Last modified: March
16th,
2013
Last checked
links: April 12th,
2012
Established:
November 26th, 1995
© 2013 Devon
Cattell, Unauthorized use
or reproduction prohibited
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