Didn’t want to announce this until I knew if my faithful Canon point- and- shoot would do it any justice, and I am sure Peculiar will do better esthetically. But for a more social record our in- town shots are not too bad. (As always right click or double to enlarge). Our neighbors, the Apachitos, …
Month: May 2012
Still standing
And above all still hunting: two over- sixty writers, houndsmen with Parkinson’s: Dutch Salmon and me, wearing out some younger hunters, with our hounds last February near White Sands…
Viejo
James “Viejo” Trujillo is one of my best and oldest friends here (relatively- despite his nickname, given because he was gray- haired at 21, he is a decade younger than me). He is a horseman above all, a cowboy, and a farrier, a man who never spent much time indoors. Now he is laid up …
Lauren checks in…
Adventuring on; she will be going out to Kazakhstan to learn serious Kazakh soon, then to several other Stans. The Explorers Club has provided some funds but I may just have to run a bleg here… (Need I say more about my friend, protegee who long since surpassed her elder, first female berkutchi, first American …
T. H. White quote #1: Requiem for a faithful dog
On the death of his beloved setter Brownie: “But listen to this, bitch, and you, Grim Powers, If any road ever leads up to heaven’s towers My bitch comes with me. When I come to die We go together, my bitch and I. Or, if you fear to let such love return Go to, and …
Shiri’s new camera…
More Brat Pack! And Riss is FIT!
Lawrence’s bookplate
…. free- associating here, for Pluvi: my almost accidentally acquired rebound copy of Norman Douglas’s Together, from T.E.L.’s library. I picked it up in Berkeley 20 years ago for nothing; when I pointed at the plate and asked why so cheap, the clerk replied that I was the first person in five years to notice… …
At the Harry Ransom Center…
Studying T H White’s papers. Me doing my best scholar imitation… And under the bust of T. E. (not D. H.) Lawrence. Both photos by Helen Macdonald.
RIP: Hawker’s Dachs Diamond Lil, 1996- 2012
Lily the wire- haired dachs, aka “Diamond Lil, Born to Kill”, whelped at Teddy Moritz’s place in New Jersey and a long- time resident at Casa Q in New Mexico, died in Libby’s arms yesterday at the ripe old age of 16. She had various cancers and a mouth infection and was losing weight and …
Back from Texas
Pluvialis and I met in Austin to immerse ourselves in TH White’s archives which were nothing less than INCREDIBLE. There are whole books there, one of which Helen is writing and a couple that Tim White already has. Much blogging will ensue, quotes, prospective works, writing profound and brilliant, silly, drunken, honest, hilarious, and fully …