Covers for four of my reprints, all good so far… the last, the new Eagle Dreams with Cat Urbigkit’s cover of my late friend Aralbai, and intro, the observations of a Wyoming cowgirl and stockwoman (and writer) fifteen years or so after me, has been out only a couple of weeks. Now if I could …
Month: April 2015
Truth
From Jack:
Friday Doggage
Shiri’s new Meshi, at rest and in motion…
Hare vs Hound…
Tim Gallagher asked if I had ever seen an image of a hare chasing a hound, as in this portrait in stone from a Roman fort in England. Well, I hadn’t, but Herb Wells has…
Springtime in Colorado
We woke up to this this morning. Forecasts saw we could get another six inches in the next 24 hours.
California Dry
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news here in the US knows about the current extreme drought in California and all the problems that it’s causing. My daughter who lives in Long Beach said in a message some weeks ago, “Remember back in 2010 when it rained and rained here and we had …
Future Telephones As Envisioned in 1930
But we never got the flying cars we were promised! H/T Ace of Spades
Unique action
France has always gone its own merry way in design– in cars, think of the Citroen; in guns– well, more seem unique than those of any other country (can “more” and “unique” coexist this way in a sentence?) The first that comes to mind is the sliding breech Darne. I have had many. Carlos Martinez …
Ingenious Pigeons
Ducks may think decoys are fellow ducks; C. livia seems unimpressed. From Dan Gauss at Shot on Site comes this shot of pigeons “using decoys as tools” as he says… Probably mostly light and photoblogging til I go east to see Tom Russell’s Rose of Roscrae debut at Passim. All is well– just incredibly busy …
Quote
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.” Lewis Thomas in Lives of a Cell (HT Skeeter Leard)