Three years after this day, my twins are taller and the farm has swapped cattle for soybeans (a bad trade from my perspective), but a day in the field is still worth a week at a desk! We found a strip of grass still standing and walked it back and forth until Ernie had his …
Author: Matt Mullenix
Matt’s Whereabouts
Hello All! I’m still here, reading and enjoying the continuing chatter at Querencia. “Been busy” is inadequate to explain my lack of correspondence; so to overstate it only a little, I sometimes feel I’ve been travelling for two years down a long tunnel, away from myself: Little writing for pleasure; falconry pared to bare-essentials; contemplative …
Cat and Matt in the Big Easy
Another check-mark on my Blogger Meet-up Bucket List! Cheers from New Orleans! An unexpected and very welcome note from fellow blogger Cat Urbigkit, who was on her way to Louisiana: “I’m about to head to New Orleans for a long weekend (attending the American Library Association convention) – I can’t believe how hot it is …
Facsimile
Found items from hawking trips this year, both apropos of their settings: the first, a mesquite limb from a desert pasture north of Amarillo TX and the second a cypress knee from a bayou in the heart of Cajun Louisiana. Can you guess what spirits they possess? – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Soup in just four months
To illustrate how ignorance can sneak up on you: despite several years of gardening (and 40 years of eating), I didn’t actually know where broccoli came from until this season. In fact, it was more recent than that, since the broccoli I planted four months ago sprouted nothing even a little like broccoli (as I …
More Hawking Photos
First a short series of photos taken by Brian Millsap during our last-week hunting trip to Amarillo, Texas. Eric Edwards’s merlin Jimmy Walker and goshawk Turkey at the night roost Taking a break from the wind at 25 degrees Another batch of great photos (more by Eric Edwards) are available in the linked Picasa albumn below. …
Gumbo take the hindmost…
Where Friday’s jack lives today.
Amarillo 2010
I spent last week hawking in Amarillo, Texas. More pics to come as they filter in from friends, but here are a few from a jackrabbit hunt toward the end of the week. This one flushed close in high cover, which is a good situation for a male Harris hawk like mine (jacks outweigh him …
New Look
Well we bit the bullet and updated the Q-blog template to the very apropos bookshelf theme you see here. We may make more changes, adding little gadgets and widgets and whatnot, mainly because now we can. Happy Monday!
More Thoughts on Prof. McMahan’s Essay
Reading yesterday’s NYT (online) essay, The Meat Eaters, by Rutgers University professor of philosophy Jeff McMahan (forwarded by reader Daniela and shared below by Steve), I’m almost more puzzled by my own need to comment on the piece than I am amazed by it. It’s tempting to lump this man’s essay in with the tiresome mass of …