From Annie Davidson:
Month: November 2015
Sixty- Three
… posts til #4000. On June 5, 2005, I wrote the first, rather casually, never dreaming that a blog would become part of my writing life… Several books, a step- grandson, Parkinson’s, many friends gone… Selling some guns I should not have (well I do that every WEEK)… I need without question to write a …
Update on “Beebesaurus”
… also known as Microraptor gui. I painted it a sort of irridescent black, to conform with what is known about its feathers. Can’t believe how much it looks like Beebe’s bookplate in his pre- WW I (1910) book Our Search for a Wilderness. Microraptor was dug up in China in 2003.
The Kids Know…
Dinos had feathers! Eli’s 4th birthday card… feathered T rex by Jackson. Article coming in Living Bird…
Road Books
My thesis for years has been that there are three great 1950’s “Road” books. Two are obvious to the literate: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The other may be MORE obvious to naturalists, many of whom miss one or the other of the first two; Wild America, by Roger Tory Peterson …