Somehow it always seems to surprise me when I see these Blue Jays of my youth out here at the western end of their range. I hadn’t seen this many at once before at our feeders. There was a fourth who wouldn’t cooperate with the photo process. They ended up getting bullied off the food …
Month: October 2011
Hanging with the Big Bucks
I took this picture from my deck during the snowstorm last Saturday morning.
Denver & Rio Grande
We recently finished fieldwork for a wind farm project in south-central Colorado, Huerfano County to be exact. We found quite a few prehistoric sites, that I’ll talk about in another post, but perhaps the most significant historic thing we found was an abandoned grade of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The D&RG was founded …
Born to Hunt
John Barsness has just released his latest book, Born to Hunt, a collection of essays that ranges from his home in Montana to Africa and the Arctic, along with more obscure destinations like Norway and Ireland. If you read magazines you surely know that John is one of the most prolific “gun writers” alive, as …
Fall shipping
This seemingly peaceful scene is deceptive (click photos to enlarge). That’s Vega, one of the Aziat females, lounging on the hillside in the foreground of the parked sheep wagons, trying to ignore what we were doing to her herd. Just outside of the photo are the portable sheep pens, filled to the brim with thousands …
Matt’s Whereabouts
Hello All! I’m still here, reading and enjoying the continuing chatter at Querencia. “Been busy” is inadequate to explain my lack of correspondence; so to overstate it only a little, I sometimes feel I’ve been travelling for two years down a long tunnel, away from myself: Little writing for pleasure; falconry pared to bare-essentials; contemplative …
Young Eli
I’ll slow down the doting grandpa stuff after this weekend but here is Jack’s own link to Elisha Joseph (a middle name he shares with my dad, who has often featured here) Frishman, with pix funny and touching. Jackson also sent some excellent pix of the late Big Eli that sum him up better than …
Baby Name
He’ll have a good old- fashioned name, “Eli” (Elisha) after the late Eli Tripp, our “other kid” in Montana and a worthy namesake. My obit quoted his local one for some examples of his interests. “In addition to taking courses at NYU Film School and MSU, Eli was a student of life, backpacking in Europe …
Long Awaited?
Well, yeah. Here is Niki last week at a St John’s reunion dance with Larissa. I can’t believe she could still walk never mind dance, but this IS a woman who climbed Mt Taylor’s 11,000 plus feet while visibly pregnant!
Q Blog Post 2500: It’s a (big) boy!
A delightful coincidence: I had hoped for something good to blog for # 2500 but never dared dream it would be this good; the long- awaited birth of the”Peculiar- Querencia baby”! On Sat Oct 1, after two strenuous days of labor, a vigorous boy of 9 pounds 12 ounces (about twice as big as I …