My daughter Lauren and her husband Zach are pleased to announce the arrival of their first child and our first grandchild, Isabella Rosalie Wilson, born last Monday in Long Beach, CA. Isabella was 8 lb 14 oz and 22 inches long with dark curly hair. Mom and baby are doing fine. Connie and I are …
Author: Reid Farmer
Cattle Mutilations
…have started ocurring again in Las Animas County, Colorado. This is apparently not the work of animal predators, as there are no tracks or footprints at the scene, there is no blood around the carcass, and the meat is removed with straight cuts as if with a knife. This has been in and out of …
Good News
The Interior Department has announced that the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list. Total population is up to 650,000 and this is a success of the DDT ban and the Endangered Species Act. One of my favorite sights on the beach is watching pelicans “fold up” and dive for fish.
Chicharrone
Saw this sign the other day up in west Denver, and it made me think of Steve.
Times are Tough
Here in Colorado, the state budget crisis has reached such proportions that the legislature is planning to revoke the tax exemption on sale of bull semen.
Modern Man is a Wimp
Says an Australian anthropologist. And he’s absolutely correct – our species has been getting decreasingly robust over the last 10,000 years or so with changes in adaptive pressures. What I found new and interesting in this article was the analysis of running speed from some 20,000 year-old fossil footprints. Very cool.
Ritual Deaths at Ur
One of the most famous archaeological finds of the 20th century, was the discovery of the royal cemetary at Ur. Leonard Woolley made the discovery of the 4,500 year-old tombs in the 1920s in southern Iraq. The burials showed fabulous sophistication in rich gold work and jewelry. One of the gold headdresses is shown in …
Claude Levi-Strauss, RIP
Claude Levi-Strauss, a French cultural anthropologist, died earlier this week at the age of 100. He was a giant in cultural anthropology and was much in the mode of the stereotypical French intellectual. He was one of the founders of Structuralism, and did much to show that the sophistication and elaboration of the mythologies and …
Dinner Guests
Late Sunday afternoon this fellow dropped by the house for a visit. I was on the deck and had to shoot through the trees, so you can see some of the limbs in the picture. He brought his lady friends with him. We got 22 inches of snow earlier in the week, and I’m sure …
Don’t Mess with Kingbirds
Today’s Denver Post had this great pic of a Western Kingbird harrassing a Red-tailed Hawk that I just had to pass on.