Them that knows, knows– the importance of this task, the beauty of it, and the satisfaction when you have split enough to relax…
Month: October 2013
Wyatt Earp
At home in Los Angeles, 1923. I was really struck by this photograph when I stumbled across it. He would have been 75 and he still looks like he could kick your ass any time he felt like it.
Boyz in the Hood
There were three of them here yesterday morning. I was able to take these pictures from the deck and not alarm them much. They had followed a group of does up the hill (it IS that time of year) and they were on their way back down to the Bayou Gulch bottoms, pausing along the …
Hot Links
A systematic study of stenciled hand prints in European Upper Paleolithic cave art (like in the picture above) indicates that most of them were likely made by women. This comes as a surprise as most have assumed that this rock art was associated with hunting magic and was executed by men. Dale Guthrie call your office. …
The Land Of My Soul
It was a crisp 16 degrees when we set out, the headlights of the truck shining on the black ice coating the roadway, with the soft fog buffering the white glare of the freshly fallen snow blanketing the landscape. It was slow going pulling the empty stock trailer so it wouldn’t fishtail on the slick …
An Heirloom
A couple of years ago, I posted about my mother’s family’s history of manufacturing patent medicine. That post showed a 1930s photograph with a Nash’s Chill & Liver Tonic advertising sign, and I said I had long wanted to find a bottle. I mentioned this in an off-hand remark to my cousin Clifford Toney when I …
Big Spring
On another field trip taken while in Arkansas last month, Connie and I drove to the Missouri Ozarks to see the Current River near the town of Van Buren. When I was a kid our family did lots of camping and canoeing here before it became a National Scenic River and the National Park Service …
Larry Benoit RIP
Legendary whitetail hunter Larry Benoit, of Duxbury VT, is dead at 89. he exemplified the Yankee blue- collar woodsman- hunter, and despite it being a how- to, his How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life, a delightful read as well as a practical manual, would have made my book of books if not …
A Rowan Oak Bonus
I was going to put this in my post last week on Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, but I had so many photos in the post already that Blogger was getting balky and I was afraid I would lose the whole thing. After I had finished walking through the house, I went back to my car, got …
“Preppy”?
Reader Matthew remarks in comments below on my being such a “preppie” in my youth. Well, yeah, but life goes on and reality intrudes. Children become unexpected adults. And no matter how you strive, “Golden lads and girls all must/ As chimney- sweepers, come to dust…”