Connie and I returned last night from an amazingly wonderful trip. In the coming days I will put a lot of material up on the blog on some of the experiences we had while there. Like watching these two old bulls devour an acacia tree in the Endumet Wildlife Area. Or seeing this dark-patterned giraffe …
Month: July 2015
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Via Jim Spencer: “”Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?” (James Joyce)
“Better than Bacon”
This painting, in which Carl Rungius does his own version of a Charley Russell theme, is in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. Most of Rungius’s late great oils have a distinctive theme or style, which I characterized rudely to two of my friends, art historian Jim Moore and museum curator Toby …
Image again
Here is the full image of the painting that contains the detail I blogged on below. I await the book, but as far as I know it is in Chinese, so it may still be enigmatic. It is both beautiful and sinister, and its title is “Clearing the Mountains”. Who is clearing whom out of …
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“No science without fancy. No art without facts” (Vladimir Nabokov, via Carlos Martinez del Rio)
Old Timers
Our annual fiesta seems to have taken on new life, and despite threatening (pre?) monsoon clouds staggering by, nothing is getting cancelled. It SMELLS like O t’s. Now we just need the metronymic rhythm of 4 pm daily storms (with hail!) and maybe this will be the best “real” rain in a decade… Pics, random …
Cover
Book is more than half done but not done; cover is. Vadim of course.
Upcoming Trip
Connie and I are leaving later this week on a two-week trip to Tanzania. Our itinerary includes visits to Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Oldupai (used to be Olduvai) Gorge, and Serengeti National Park. We hope to have lots of photographs and stories to share when we return.
Local moths
All but one are member of large groups that are represented everywhere and anywhere, though collected here. That one is not rare, but it is interesting…
Pedersen Rifle
But for the preferences of General MacArthur and a big supply of WWI Springfields, we might have had a more elegant, if complicated, rifle for WWII than the Garand. Nathaniel F, gunblogger, scholar, and expert on military weapons and their history, first showed me a cartridge for the legendary Pedersen when he visited with Arthur …