I’ve been making frequent visits up the road to keep tabs on Coyote and Badger, and I’m pleased to report that their cooperative hunting relationship continues. I first saw and photographed them on Sunday. On Monday, it was a dreary and rainy overcast day, but I did manage to find the pair again, just as …
Month: October 2012
The girls go on a hunt
My coyote magnetism continues. Sunday afternoon as I headed down the highway en route to the sheep, a beautiful coyote with long gangly legs ran across the road in front of me. Laughing at the continued presence of these wild canines in my life, I pulled off the highway to get a few images of …
Birds of Paradise
Some marketers seemed to think that a fitting description of my last book’s subject, eagles, was “the most beautiful bird in the world”. To use a more polite word than I usually would, nonsense! There are many contenders; this pheasant has always been a favorite: Even more so when displaying But there are even better …
Pretty Guns- Post #2
I’ll leave this slightly obsessive subject in a minute but somebody asked me in an email “what ARE the best?” and what my– I dunno, esthetic is; my Platonic ideal. I could never afford one and I doubt if my fans can make up a rich enough cartel to comp me one as a present, …
Prettiest Purdey?
The “island lock” model below, first made in the 1870’s and probably available until at least the Great War, was to my mind the prettiest of all Purdeys, matched in “Best” quality guns only by perhaps a bar- in- wood action by Dixon or McNaughton from the same time– make mine of Damascus, please, with …
I don’t get it but…
Excellent writer on western and other matters and blogger Jameson Parker is an official “Friend of Q” and the former star of the good 80’s TV show Simon and Simon, but he is as bemused by this video treatment as any of us–??
Firewood
A good load of wood (thanks Tyler Chavez!) and a new roof (for the first time in over five years, no leaks– thanks Simon and Della Armijo!) make for at least a sense of modest security– and wood makes a better photo.
Good Books
I endorse and will soon cover in detail: Silvio Calabi’s The Gun Book for Boys, which may be the best beginner’s gun manual ever; David Quammen’s Spillover (these will be my first two reviews); Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies (was life at Henry VIII’s court any less fraught or terrifying than at Stalin’s?) and …
In Tearing Haste
As Patrick Leigh Fermor would have said… I have been insanely busy or maybe just dreadfully slow, as much or more from my mysterious endless roaming inflammatory arthritis- that- is- not- gout as anything specifically Parkinsonian (may publish a medical info- bleg on that soon). Have had the Denver trip, an Albuquerque one, the new …
Well-Traveled Kennewick Man
We’ve posted many times here about Kennewick Man, whose 9,500 year-old remains were found on the banks of the Columbia River, and the subject of a famous court case which allowed scientists to keep them for study rather than repatriate them to tribes under NAGPRA. Most of this Seattle Times article is devoted to a …