Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds— the best book on the subject yet, by Australian paleontologist John Long and magical artist Peter Schouten, best known here for his collaborations with Tim Flannery. You look at these and think: THIS is what they looked like. A mother Troodon attends the hatching of her eggs. Much behavior …
Month: June 2008
Young Hawker
The cover of the Georgia Fish & Game brochure for this year. As Anne Pearse Hocker says, no “Nature Deficit Syndrome” here!
Bo Diddley RIP
Coming back from a sort of bloggish lunch in Albuquerque with frequent commentors and dog- in- laws Paul and Nate, MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, his friend Amelia, and a baby hawk, we saw that the flags on the State Police hq near Socorro were at half mast. Turns out the great old rocker Bo …
Summer Reading for Presidential Hopefuls
Tip o’ the hat to Annie Hocker (world traveller, photographer, falconer, writer) for this link to a list of books other writers suggest for each of the presidential candidates. How many have you read? Not many by me, but some, and I’m happy to say my main man Wendell Berry is suggested twice (once by …