Plates by Vadim Gorbatov
Month: November 2013
New Darnes!
Jacques Bollelli has revived the nearly dead Darne company, and is planning to make a few very high grade guns. Although these are beyond my reach I am delighted to see the old design going into its third century with renewed vision and originality. Jacques writes:”As you know we are starting to reorganize the team …
Gratuitous Hound Pix
From Jutta in Germany and Shiri just up the road
Quote
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” (Chesterton, via Arthur Kover and John “Johnny UK” Hill).
Meanwhile, at sea…
Brother- in- law George Graham has been getting more and more involved in observing, counting, and studying marine birds and fish off the coast of Massachusetts, so far as a volunteer. He sent this report and these excellent photos, as migration stretces its lines down the coasts. My only caveat is that George will have …
Digging
Andy was right about the photo of Libby a bit below, but didn’t guess the place. The photo was taken in 1966, when she was digging on the important early American Hell Gap archaeological site in southeastern Wyoming, east of Guernsey, under the leadership of the legendary Cynthia Irwin- Williams. Libby got her degree, and …
True…
… unfortunately. From Annie Davidson:
Mystery pic
1966. Who, doing what? Right or double click and make it huge…
Hilarious…
.. and irreverent true quote, by Rob Macfarlane (who is as fond of Paddy Leigh Fermor as I am): “This was the man whom the travel writer Robert Macfarlane, reviewing Ms. Cooper’s book in The Guardian, called “a mixture of Peter Pan, Forrest Gump, James Bond and Thomas Browne.”
Woodpile 2013
Winter is coming…