Last night Connie and I went to the premiere of a special exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science called “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age.” It’s a very nice exhibit with lots of good stuff but I was somewhat disappointed at how the Museum limited what you could photograph. Among the …
Month: March 2013
Bugs
I first noticed this bug graffiti on a retaining wall last October. It’s on the east side of South Parker Road at about the Arapahoe County line. I don’t drive that stretch very often so I don’t know when it would have gone in, but I doubt if it was earlier than last summer. They …
Hot Links
We have comets on the way: Pan-STAARS this month and Ison in November. Pan-STAARS is already visible in the Southern Hemisphere as you can see in this pic taken recently in Australia. It should be visible in parts of the Northern Hemisphere this week. There are articles here and here on the comets. I am …
A Glorious First of March
We had quite a sunset here on Friday. We get so many good ones I sometimes feel spoiled.
Gun Guys
I usually don’t review books that I blurb– but if you have any strong views on guns, on either side, take a look at Dan Baum’s Gun Guys . There are several reasons to (on top of its being a fine piece of reporting and a good read): first, genuinely pro- gun books by unabashed …
Hemingway, Faulkner, and longer sentences
Reid’s post below absolutely delighted me, because it showed me once again how my good friend and I share certain tastes and beliefs even when we don’t know it. If you haven’t read his post below read and come back… All set? Next month Lyons publishes my A Sportsman’s Library: 100 Essential, Engaging, Offbeat, and …
Woodpecker at Work
Outside our kitchen window last Friday.
Denver Art Museum – O’Keeffe and More
On Saturday, Connie and I went to the Denver Art Museum to take a look at a special exhibit on “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico.” A centerpiece in the exhibit was a collection of drawings and paintings of katchina dolls O’Keeffe had done in her early visits to New Mexico that have previously been little …
Long Sentences
I finally got a copy of Paul Hendrickson’s Hemingway’s Boat. I was so long getting to it, I was starting to feel like a kid dodging homework. A copy jumped off the shelf and into my hands when I was walking through the Tattered Cover the other day. Parts of it I am enjoying, though …
Parker
Leonard Parker, Quanah’s grandson (he was in the photo of the old man’s reburial in 1956, wearing his Army uniform) is back in town on a quick run with his nephew. He managed the BIA dorms for Floyd Mansell, ran the Spur for Steve Grayson, and eventually moved back to Anadarko with his late wife …