Annie Davidson sent our tiny aging, nostalgic, and usually goofy Zoo group (we have known each other since, what, 1970?) a provocative essay contra the Linnaean binomial system. I think she was poking a stick in an anthill, but I am afraid it pushed a few buttons! I was provoked to editorialize… “The author’s criticisms …
Month: January 2013
New Year Dogs
Tavi & Gaddi from Shiri
Feedback?
It has been suggested I grow a beard because of slowness & difficulty shaving. Hmmm– I do not like it coming in, I do not recognize myself in the mirror; Canat in Mongolia though grinning said of this photo that I looked like a “big EEvan” (Ivan, ie a Russian), and though he grinned I …
New Year at the Spur
Our annual tradition: seeing out the year at the Golden Spur Saloon. A selection: House band: manager Monana Pettis and chef Linda Rael, heading up the ever- evolving 86’d Again, offer up a stomping rock version of Folsom Prison Blues: (It is a matter of being a local I suppose– it had to be pointed …
Generic
I have difficulty spending too much time at the keyboard these days, while work expands, and I find myself neglecting reading my blog “family”. Then I go on binges of catching up. Yesterday, while reading my indispensable fellow New Mexican gun and science fans, the Atomic Nerds, I scrolled down to find that Stingray had …
The Meadow Lark
Jim and I were surprised to encounter a western meadowlark on the haystack on this last day of 2012. I’ve mixed feelings about the year we’re putting to bed – there has been so much sorrow for so many. So it is with joy that a meadowlark closes out the year, and sings in the …
Red Kite?
I can’t prove the bird morphed into an “eagle” in the hoax video below was a red kite (Milvus milvus) but I have seen a few in the wild and I think it was. A beautiful bird with remarkable buoyancy and power of flight, a common medieval street scavenger, a most challenging quarry hunted through …