Or in her Beacon Hill accent and at her insistence, “Frahn”. She was a force of nature, a well- born Bostonian who defied convention and became Aldo Leopold’s only female student, a biologist, a hunter, a writer, and a falconer. She and her beloved husband Frederick lived for as many years as I have been …
Month: June 2011
The Girls in Santa Fe
Much more in a little, but just downloaded this pic of The Girls looking rather formal and on their best behavior while staying at the Peculiar’s last week midst the chaos. They behaved well, were a great comfort, and went to the graveside, though Lashyn (left) remained rather nervous the entire time. (She has a …
Bill Haast dead at 100…
The legendary reptile man Bill Haast died in Florida last week at 100. According to the NYT: “Mr. Haast was bitten at least 173 times by poisonous snakes, about 20 times almost fatally. It was all in a day’s work for probably the best-known snake handler in the country, a scientist-cum-showman who made enough money …
Fishing for words
I’m between book projects at the moment – something that only happens for a short time every few years. My next children’s book has been sent to the printer, and my next adult book is making its way through the review process of an academic press under the guidance of an acquisitions editor who is …
Seattle turf war
Jim and I had the pleasure of spending last weekend in Seattle, visiting our grandgirls and nephew. While exploring Pike’s Place Market, we heard a ruckus above. A crow and gull were having a horrendous dispute, and I enjoyed spending a few minutes watching the crow dive-bombing the stubborn gull.
Belated Answer
Too busy! But re “digs him up again” in Mesabi below: the ref is from Ezra Pound in his pre- Modernist period; from “Sestina: Altaforte”, his sketch of the warrior troubador Bertrans de Born. He prefaces the poem: “Dante Alghieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife. “Eccovi! …
PLF 2: Letters from Geoffrey Household
Sadly, I never corresponded with Patrick Leigh Fermor, but I did for many years with the adventurous old “suspense” story writer Geoffrey Household (as so many perceptive critics wrote, he was so much more than that, including a naturalist, a regionalist, and a chronicler of the same old lost Europe that Leigh Fermor also celebrated). …
Patrick Leigh Fermor 1915- 2011 RIP
Too burnt on obit- writing to write a proper tribute to one of my (and Betsy Huntington’s; she left me all my early first editions; and Q’s) favorite writers and examples of a life well- lived. But readers and nomads everywhere should observe a silent moment: Patrick Leigh Fermor has died at 96 in England. …
A Little Comic Relief
The Bodio side of the Frishman heritage, in part: guns & animals. I think several blogs attest there is a literary component as well…
Readings
On a hot dusty day, we buried Patty Adam in Fairview Cemetery on Cerrillos road in Santa Fe, with a small crowd of friends in attendance. The cemetery, on the National Historic Register, is odd, small, old, and dry, with 19th century tombstones and a general air of benign neglect– think New Orleans with prairie …