Daniel Riviera’s younger pointer is not as well- mannered as Boone (see below). Meanwhile, in Laramie, Carlos and his dogs take a walk and a nap: “They ran up the trail and came back, laughing the contagious laughter of dogs in snow…”
Month: December 2014
On translating Russian
In my Sportsman’s Library, usually called “The Book of books” around here, I wrote about Mikhail Prishvin’s Nature’s Diary, and the problem of translation: “There is also an interesting book by Prishvin, published by Pantheon 1952, called The Lake and the Woods, a handsome volume illustrated by woodcuts. A close read reveals it is the …
Stephen Grant hammer 16…
… at present. Next we will focus on the barrels. I think it was made in 1868. Right or double click to enlarge.
Doggage 2: Tazi run (from Jutta)
Presents!!
I would hesitate to write about our Christmas presents but for the fact that virtually everything we got has intimate connections to the Blog’s interests– biology, guns, art, dogs- and I think a selection might amuse most readers… The background of the first is a present itself, from Jackson, and one I promise excerpts from …
A Quote or Three; Writing Life
“Poverty taught me not to worry about money.”–Michael Caine. Tom McIntyre to Jameson Parker on the normal novel in the US: “They’re all written by middleclass kids from nice middleclass suburbs who went to good schools and good colleges, and then on to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and then moved to Brooklyn where they all …
It is Christmas eve
.. and I haven’t gotten to the computer until now. Nor is the time right for anything serious or heavy. Tonight the music on the box ranges from Baroque to Loreena McKinnet to Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, the last performed by the choir at Albany’s Cathedral of all Saints back when Libby’s sister and her …
He’s Baaack!
I was goingt to wait until after New Year’s Day, but I more or less have things in order, as much as is possible with the built- in chaos generators in my life. I have decided that the blog, while it doesn’t exactly bring in cash (and there must be some way to do a …
Settling In For Winter
Our fenceline marks the border of the Mesa big game winter range. It’s located south of Pinedale, Wyoming and is closed to motorized traffic from Jan. 1 through April 30 every year so that the mule deer and pronghorn antelope can spend winter days free from disturbance. This 76,000-acre range covers the broad expanse between …
What Happens When A Breeding Wolf Is Killed
“Lethal Control of Wolves Provides No Benefit to Livestock” “Why A Ravening Wolf is a Sheep’s Best Friend” Those were the headlines yesterday, as media outlets continue to hype a flawed Washington State University research paper that I panned over on Wolf Watch. The WSU researchers noted that through a certain time period: 1) the …