Hares avoiding raptors.

Youtube videos Compilation video on facebook ​ I wasn’t aware that they jumped to avoid raptors.

Mallard eats fish.

​I wasn’t surprised that a duck, even a puddle duck, would eat a fish but this many at once was a surprise. Many more.

Italians and Italy

Percent Italians by US county Steve with his Italian roots might find a surprise there. I did. I thought it would be more spread out.   Northern Italy has just climbed a little higher on our to-do list. This one has got to be one of the prettiest hybrid marble trout I have seen in …

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​Mosasaurus teeth?

​Mosasaurus teeth from Morocco found on Sidi Chennane Basin are 66 million years old. Fossil Paleo It is hard to believe but it is a hotspot for such fossils.

“Stream in the Forest” – Andrey Nikolayevich Shilder, ca.1906

“Stream in the Forest” – Andrey Nikolayevich Shilder, ca.1906 I love the light. Gustaf Fjæstad, Cold Winter Evening Bang on for that cold damp cold we get here. I am cold just looking at it. ​ Funny how I wrote this up and the next day we had those rare rime ice\hoar frost conditions here.

Another Interesting Piece

My Collath 14ga finally showed up… perhaps the most exquisite gun I own out of a LOT! James John Babcock Another in 16?

Westley Richards single

  Interesting Westley Richards single, Deeley ejectors removed, unusual double lumps. Vintage Guns ​No bore size mentioned but singles were usually for the larger bores like 8.

EV Scream??

A less obvious example, I was really looking forward to when electric trucks got to the reliability and price points that they’d be a reasonable purchase. That would no doubt take “low impact” everything up a notch. That excitement has vanished, ever since a neighbor bought an electric car. Sure, it’s whisper quiet to me, …

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Roy Chapman Andrews update.

Tom Lovell True Magazine Chinese Soldiers Painting I sent Steve this Tom Lovell image in Sept 2023. He replied, “Where do you FIND these things?? ​I love it.” Lovell was a contemporary to Clymer with a similar career arc. Prior post. Tom Lovell True Magazine June 1949 Last Christmas I posted this and at the time I didn’t know …

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