I’ve been watching a young pronghorn doe this past week, as she’s been hanging out, alone, in the hay meadow on the north side of the highway. The native grass is growing really well, the irrigation ditch is full, and it’s very beautiful, quiet and peaceful. The most disturbance that occurs there is when the …
Month: June 2009
The Apprentice
Falconry continues through the ages in one of two ways: Either it springs spontaneously from the fertile mind of some bootstrapping biophile, or it passes down from one to another through an apprenticeship.Some combination of the two is also possible. My own introduction to the sport was largely self-starting but later molded by a series …
Happy Anniversary
I guess we got busy and lost track, but Friday was the fourth anniversary of the Querencia blog. Matt here: I had this line tagged on to the above post but given Reid’s notice of our “bloggiversary,” I think it should better go in this one. “…I’m happy to think our Querencia blog represents the …
Suburban Wildlife
At lunchtime today when I was walking over to the burger place, I saw these goose families on a play date in the neutral ground between the hotel parking lot and the ice-cream place. Soon after I got there, the gardener came though with his noisy aeration machine and sort of broke things up. Time …
More on Paleoindian Art
I just wanted to jump in to talk about Steve’s post on that beautiful etching on bone of a mammoth or mastodon recently discovered in Florida. The only thing I can think of that is anything like it is this carving that was found in the 1870s at Tequixquiac in central Mexico. It is the …
Mammoth Art
An incredible artifact, a piece of bone with an image of a mammoth carved in it, has been found in Vero Beach. It may be as old as 14,000 years. “No similar carved figure has ever been authenticated in the United States, or anywhere in this hemisphere. (Snip) “Etched into the bone by a highly …
Puppy Mills?
Gail Goodman sent this interesting essay from the UKC on “Puppy Mills” What are they? Should we even use the word? “Twenty years ago, animal activists created the phrase “puppy mill”. Back then, it was only applied to commercial breeders, and then only to those who were breaking the law by neglecting their dogs. In …
Rainy range
We’ve been blessed with a rainy spring and the animals respond accordingly. This is the yearling Aziat Rant playing with Rena, the two-year old Akbash (the all white one), this morning as the sun was coming up over the Wind Rivers. I knew when they walked up to each other nose-to-nose that play fights would …
More Early Learning Experiences
I couldn’t resist throwing in a couple of my favorite pictures. That’s our daughter Lauren, age 18 months (?) working on the excavation of a rockshelter in the foothills west of Denver. You’ll have to guess who that tall brunette is standing behind her. Here’s our son Travis, age 4, helping trowel out a level …
Manteca
And speaking of animal by-products: courtesy of Michael Blowhard we find that in the world of fashionable food, lard is again cool.