Images, various

I am even more pressed than usual. Though I will try to get some content up in the next two days, time is tight; in addition to my needing to rework my current two book proposals once more at the request of publishers– don’t ask!– we leave Wednesday for our first visit to Deep Springs, …

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Great Rissa pic plus T pups

Showing a “pacing” gait– by Shiri. Three of her cousins are still available at John Burchard’s in the Central Valley town of Alpaugh. They are about four months old; their mother, of our breeding, is brindle Tigger, from Lashyn and Almaty Kyran; their dad tanpoint Prince of serious Arab hunting background. Get in touch with …

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A Little Picture Blogging…

I avoid clipping or least posting photos and art when not being blog- productive, but that doesn’t mean good things cease to arrive. Anastasia Ealy sent this symbolic painting of Central Asia’s ancient trio of non- human partners, one with roots in the Deep Past all the way from nearly Manchuria west to Europe and …

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THIS is an Eagle

Female Harpy from the somewhere in the Neotropics. Look at those feet, consider her diet, and tell me one of these wouldn’t “eat your kid”  as Dan M used to say. HT to David Zincavage

Paleo Art comes of age…

Which doesn’t mean gets dull and predictable. On the contrary, the abundance of “new” fossils  has given birth to a generation of artistic and scientific iconoclasts whose bold new vision is far more rooted in the past than any older generation’s was. The inimitable polymath and prodigiously productive blogger Darren Naish, a serious anatomist, was …

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Lesotho – the kingdom in the sky

Jim and I have just returned from a fantastic trip to Lesotho and South Africa. While we enjoyed our journey into the heart of traditional Zululand in South Africa (a future post), our arrival in the high alpine mountains of Lesotho was the discovery of Shangri-La. The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent nation entirely …

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Lahav RIP

Daniela Imre’s Lahav, one of the greatest dogs I have ever known, is dead at 15. He was her constant companion, a coursing champion, a hunter, a defender and guardian. He distrusted most male humans and would threaten them for their presumption if they got near Daniela. She called him the Munchkin: I, “The Muncher …

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