……Some serious- and silly- photos. I think Karen did the painting, which was on the casket:
Month: September 2016
Obit
George’s obituary from the Boston Globe: “GRAHAM, George M. Of South Weymouth, formerly of North Weymouth, died September 20, 2016. George worked as an engineer for many years. He was a volunteer for NOAA, Care Packs, Fore River Young Marines and a member of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. George was also a Weymouth Youth …
George Graham RIP
My brother in law and dear friend, George Graham, died early today after a struggle with esophageal cancer. He was not quite 54, and I can’t get my head around it yet. Until a month or so ago he and Karen were pretty optimistic, and I always thought he would outlive me. We were utterly …
George is still fighting
Keep him in your prayers and thoughts- he is going through a hard patch. That is him as letter “K”.
Convergent Evo -in Double Guns!
I had no idea, when I started measuring these, just how close they would be. They are of different origin and design. One is an LC Smith so- called Featherweight 12 from †he 1920,s, built and designed in New England and New York. One is a typical 12 bore British game gun (though proofed for …
New Tim Murphy
Enjoy these- they will only be up for a month… September, an Ode Song for the Sandhills Forested shoulders sloping down its valley, the Sheyenne carves its way through North Dakota to Agassiz, lakebed of the Red River. I pass a timber truck to prove that logging endures far east of our Montana mountains. Certainly …
More Mushrooms
Not only have the belated rains kept them coming; perhaps edible Mycology is meme that has finally come to Magdalena. VLA near highway The day of our hunt, we worked our way down Bear Trap Canyon, which runs south from Monica saddle in the San Mateos to finally emerge in ranchland, on our …
Late Mushrooms
We are going in search of late boletes tomorrow in the San Mateos, But so far this season all we have is this lonely clutch of lobsters from the White Mountains of Arizona from Simon Armijo.These delicious parasites are more consistent from year to year because they are only found above 10,000 feet, and our …
Now THAT is a bookstore!
The El Atenio in Buenos Aires. HT Micah Mattix at Prufrock.
Heinz Meng, 1925 – 2015: RIP
Heinz Meng in the 70s. Dr Heinz Meng of New Paltz NewYork, a long -time professor of Zoology at the State University there and the man who first bred falcons in captivity in the US (Not in the WORLD as many news reports chauvinistically state; Renz Waller bred several in Germany before the war, and …