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Month: December 2012
Great Granddoggery
Shiri’s photos of ornithologist and falconer Octavio Cruz, artist Melanie Keithley, a friend, and at least two (or one two- headed?) great granddogs. I will let the younger folks sort out who is who other than Tavo & Melanie, but these dogs are WINNERS. On a sad note, I hear Dutch Salmon just lost a …
Belated Xmas Pix
Chez Peculiar (Christmas eve) and as always chez Lassez at Muleshoe Ranch, where Jean- Louis showed us his numbered Mondrian (don’t ask!) Yeah, inside stuff, but you would love the conversation at either house– adventurers, photographers, naturalists and nurses and small town councilpersons, Buddhists and Orthodox and skeptics and a Mormon, a retired medical guy …
Update (& Some Cards)
Still awaiting the return of my “real” computer and all my files but meanwhile two whimsical seasonal cards from two of my favorite talented friends: science blogger and more Darren Naish and dog in law, artist , architect, and teacher Daniela Imre (hairier pup our Shunkar):
Christmas with Dogs Plus: Daniel
D and his team are returned from the High Plains to the wine country. My big computer is down for repair; our own Christmas stuff plus a whole lot of book reviews will return through the weekend…
Granddogs: The Kids are Alright
Photos from Terence Wright prove that the descendants of the late Plummer, the creaky Lashyn, and the still healthy Taik and Kyran are doing well at that rarest and oldest form of team pursuit hunting here in New Mexico: Fubar is a perfect example of how falconry can rehabilitate a seemingly hopeless bird. Terence wrote: …
Ranch Life
Jim and I had a little time to kill on our friend Pete’s ranch today when we went to pick up our rams. I thought Q readers might enjoy a quick tour. The photo above provides the setting – a western Wyoming ranch, at the foothills of the Wind River Mountains. Livestock guardian puppies awaken …
UPDATE: Cooper’s release
Steve and Libby releasing the haggard Cooper’s hawk that visited their pigeon loft recently.
Quote
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. (“If youth only knew, if age only could.”) Suggested by Gerry & Derb almost simultaneously.
Three Thousand Posts!
Scribble, Scribble… Sometimes I feel like it too. Ages of a writer… (recent suggestions added since yesterday) Pre- Malaria: fat in Zim Writers with first books MANY years later