As I mention in her mother’s obit below, Libby was a second generation climber and a guide from the Rockies to the Himalayas. Her husband Harry, who died in a “backyard” fall in the Tetons after a far more frightening climb in China, was a serious one. Harry was father to my stepson, wilderness photo- …
Month: June 2011
Avian Drama, Home Version
In remote, dirt- road Magdalena, wildlife comes into town. Deer track through the central arroyo, followed by mountain lions. An adolescent lion got himself cornered and darted in the High school yard a couple of years ago; a bear went up an electric pole and was electrocuted the same year. Coyotes challenge the hounds from …
Gun Butts
Not art photography but: the Ithaca NID 16 gauge, my “Elmer Keith” gun, is back with an authentic 30’s- era Art Deco “Rising Sun” butt pad- wouldn’t have one without it. And the perfect little 20 is also back from Beretta in NY courtesy of Andrew Campbell, with a leather- covered pad that makes it …
The Wierdest Clock in the World…
… stands in in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia in front of a bank. I know that is a coelacanth on top (why??) but what are those… tentacles? I can’t read Mongolian, only (some) Russian, but I have a vague recollection of shooting a slide of a plaque with an inscription on it. You can see why …
Why I prefer free hunting…
… to lure coursing: I don’t like frustration! Taigans, including Jutta Rubesam’s red Taalai, in Germany, by her:
Katharine “Patty” Lucas Adam, 1917- 2011
Libby’s mother, Patty Adam, died June 3, 2011, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was born on November 23, 1917, to American parents then living in Anking, China. (As many friends know and in one of the coincidences too weird for fiction,she was raised with Betsy’s oldest sister, Jane Huntington; they were the first two …