Recently, writer Tom Davis put me in touch with master fly- tier Pete Fleischman, thinking correctly that I might have the skin of our local specialty, the Mearn’s quail.Its spotted fethers were neeeded for the”modern” classic salmon fly called the Dali, after the artist of course. Traditional Atlantic salmon flies are strange things, surreal colorful …
Month: June 2013
Tigger’s Pups #1
Courtesy of John Burchard, who bred them, and Daniela Imre, a co- “grandparent” of the human species: the wonderful rainbow litter of Tigger, bred here, and Prince. Multicolor, smooth and feathered, Kazakh & Arab; all progenitors hunters: the ultimate Silk Road US litter! I am tempted by the little brindle girl and the feathered tri(s?), …
Uhlan: Tazi Self -Esteem
My old friend David Zincavage has a blog featuring his patented brand of ferocity and political opinion (see “Never Yet Melted” in blogroll) but when writing on his own canine companions to his friends he is at his funniest. Here he is on Uhlan, who, it will not surprise you to know, is Ataika’s nephew: …
Teaser photos with material for several posts
Quick Update re Water
Going to Albuquerque for the second time in three days, trying to get Passenger pigeons up and flying, and generally overcommitted. But the water news has been ludicrously inadequate. We should never have lost water, and should have it back in a week; the situation only has a tenuous connection with drought. Everything I see …
Breaking News
Magdalena has gone national and may be on your evening news, but for an infuriating reason: our little town has just lost all its water in a well collapse, and though ranches with their own wells are all right, there is no water available for our village– around a thousand residents– and therefore none in …
Mammoth Spring
Last Sunday, Connie, my father and I drove from Jonesboro up into the Arkansas Ozarks to Mammoth Spring State Park. Mammoth Spring is located a hundred yards or so south of the Arkansas/Missouri line and is aptly named, with a flow of 9 million gallons an hour. It is the source of Spring River that …
Blast from the Past
Carol Farmer and Reid Farmer, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 1969
Carol Farmer Lofton, RIP
Carol (1958 – 2013) my younger sister and only sibling, died in Jonesboro, Arkansas last week after a mercifully brief struggle with lung cancer. I’ve posted her school picture from First Grade, as it shows her as the funny and vivacious girl that I always like to remember.
Short Pause for Learning New Stuff
If I am slow for the next couple of days please forgive me, as it is becoming uncomfortable to sit in this chair and it has been hard to type for a long time. I’m spending the next few days learning to use the iPad and training the dictation software. Wish me luck. I think …