Here is a short, interesting article on the Nazca Lines, the world-famous geoglyphs in South America. We also have geoglyphs here in North America in the desert along the Colorado River in California, Arizona, and Sonora. I’ll have to do a post on those one day soon. Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered what they believe …
Month: June 2012
Seton and Vadim Gorbatov
Vadim acknowledged Seton as an influence before he ever visited us in NM. When a Korean publisher asked him to do a version of Seton’s Lobo, the story of a youthful Seton’s capture of a notorious cattle- killing wolf in late 19th century New Mexico, we sent background images to him in Moscow. He in …
Weaselry & Seton &…
Self- perpetuating thread on Twitter & more re weasel tenacity, skulls, more– see here. Ernest Thompson Seton, childhood influence on me & RT Peterson & Gorbatov & more, born in Canada, trapped wolves in NM, had a Leopoldian change of heart, died in Santa Fe. He combined art science & whimsy in ways I miss. …
Riss Intent
Larissa like her mother is sure coyotes should be dealt with summarily. More heart than brains on this one– they are too small, and likely to be ganged up on. I am always relieved when they come back after looking like this on the runout…
Skull Life
“In northern Manitoba a man saw a great bald eagle/ hanging from its neck, teeth locked in skin and feathers, the bleached skull of a weasel.” -Jim Harrison (From A Year’s Changes) For Olivia, Dr Hypercube, Pluvialis…
Scupture- in- progress
What my friend, Albuquerque sculptor and naturalist Sarah Madigan Keenan is making of a Barbary falcon killed many years ago… And another example:
Scribble, Scribble…
Just passed 49,000 words and 232 pages in Book o’ Books, 62 books of the titular 100 plus all the supplemental material done, out of fishing and bird hunting into the big catch- all section, at least two profiles a day… So do not expect TOO much bloggage other than photos, links, or Real News …