More Doggage

Jutta’s irresistible Nhubia and Taalai from Germany, once again… “Use it or lose it”– would you believe Nhubia (white) is almost twelve?

Shannon Hiatt, 1950- 2014

When Dr Jon Esposito– vet, pigeon expert, above all old  friend, called this evening from El Paso, I had an odd apprehension, all too well  confirmed in his first sentence: “Shannon just died– they found him  in his pigeon loft, yesterday”. One the one hand, it was an appropriate way to go, almost comedically perfect …

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A little poetry

An excerpt, a vision of Elysian fields by Tim Murphy. He has a HUGE collection coming out next year– watch for it. Forests and fields lie just north of the Gulf, teeming with boar and hunted by the wolf. We rack our spears at sunset.  Songs are sung, and all the hunters and their dogs …

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Photoblogging…

Heavy medical week, to and from Albuquerque 100 miles away 4 times, so don’t expect much but photos. This one is from Carlos up in Laramie, riding Juan past Elk Mountain with Lola on point. Amazing to me it was taken on a phone…

Real West

Novelist- rancher- horseman John L. Moore in his Querencia,  many miles east of the chic part of Montana. If I were ever driven out of here, that is the first place I would go. These photos were taken by a New York filmmaker, Kelly Colbert, who is doing a documentary on a horse, working title …

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Links

What we have been looking at online… First and most importantly: if you care about the Animal “Rights” issue, and how its proponents plan to do away with all the ways we work and play with animals, you best pay attention to the impending ban of the Central Park horses. No one has done a …

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Quote

You know the essence of this, from Chandler, but Micah Mattix adds something from a Prufrock last week: “There is no such thing as high or low culture. There is interesting culture and boring culture. There are works of art that show great skill and those that don’t.”