I just ran across this article yesterday, and was reminded of a discussion Arthur Wilderson and I had recently where I talked about the difficulties in dating rock art. Larry Benson, a researcher at the University of Colorado – Boulder, has used multiple lines of evidence to date these petroglyphs found near the shore of Pleistocene …
Author: Reid Farmer
Poem
January The fir stands waist-deep in the bedded snow; The storm-birds twitter, and in dark array The broken peaks in shadow stand – when slow The sun makes for a space all-blinding day, While brown deer shyly track their silent way, Hoof-patterning the snow-drifts as they go. – Maynard Dixon
Quote
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. – Terry Pratchett
Blast From the Past
That’s me and Travis at the summit of Mt Whitney, August, 1998.
Quote
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. – G.K. Chesterton
Quick Visit
Steve and Libby (accompanied by Ataika and Mima) spent the night with us Sunday, stopping en route to some meetings in Laramie. Arthur Wilderson came down from Ft. Collins to join us. He unlimbered his camera and these pictures are courtesy of him. We had an enjoyable dinner and stayed up too late doing too …
Prairie Moose
Today’s Denver Post reports that a young bull moose has been roaming a subdivision in Parker (maybe 10 miles northwest of us) for the last two weeks. CPW and law enforcement are keeping an eye on him in hopes of keeping him out of trouble. Click through the Post link for more pictures. I really …
Mr. Half Antler
I mentioned in a post earlier this week that I had seen a buck with half his antlers broken off on one side. On closer examination it appears they weren’t broken, but grew that way.
Shady Rest
Wyatt Earp
At home in Los Angeles, 1923. I was really struck by this photograph when I stumbled across it. He would have been 75 and he still looks like he could kick your ass any time he felt like it.