Steve and Libby are in Wyoming on a week-long trip to attend a Jackson Hole wedding, so I managed to kidnap Steve for a few days of visiting our western Wyoming range country. The photo above includes Steve and Libby, and Cat and Jim Urbigkit. Steve was given the proper introduction to this wild range …
Month: August 2011
They knew it then…
… so why don’t “They” know it now? Writing in the Lonsdale Libary volume Hound & Dogs in 1932 (ed. A. Croxton Smith), Brigadier-General F, F. Lance said: “The Saluki varies in type according to the country from which he comes. He covers a very large area, extending from Northern Africa to India and from …
Most Beautiful Pigeon?
Annie D sent an anonymous web mail of over- the- top- birds. One is of my favorite wild pigeon, the Nicobar (Caloenas nicobarica) of the east Indies. I’d be glad to credit it–?
Country fun
We’ve worked far too hard lately, and everyone felt the need to blow off a little steam last weekend. What better way than to load up onto the back of a flatbed ranch truck and take a tour of our booming prairie dog town (located just outside our yard). The weekend involved a variety of …
More Doom
Birmingham, once one of the greatest gun centers in the world, has renamed its gun quarter. “One of Britain’s oldest industrial areas has been renamed after council leaders claimed local people no longer wanted to be associated with the weapons of war. “Opponents of the name change say the Gun Quarter has been sacrificed on …