So much information, so many stories, scientific discoveries, photos, art worthy of note– is it the Net or am I just getting slow? A quick run… Al Cambronne’s Deerland is the best book ever about the state of the whitetail deer, its numbers, problems, fans both hunting and non, maniacal fans, and detractors. I liked …
Author: Steve Bodio
What Birds Say
From John Wilson : Owes something to There’s a Hair in my Dirt I suspect… No water. TWO “meetings’ tonight for those of us who want to sit in irritable crowds in the heat and not be able to shower afterward.
Clapton’s Guns
Apparently Eric Clapton has commissioned and sold more guns than I have (and each and every one was probably worth more than my house). Many articles out there, a few by gunnies, some by folks horrified he would buy guns at all, some just concerned with auction prices. I assume we can all use Google, …
Stealthy Airfoils
I don’t know what else to call this image, sent by John Wilson.
Very Good Dog!
One breed I no longer have but continue to love is the field English springer. Here is a photo of Jerry Scoville’s little Springer Skookum last season, who has retrieved way more than his weight in geese. He is no Chessie– he weighs around 28 pounds, like Taik. Says Jerry: “He slept for ~30 hours …
Free Association
I have been kicking a few unrelated (?) things around, having plenty of material but not feeling, with our tough environmental conditions (no water, heat, impending possible rain making it an uncomfortable mix of steamy and dusty) much like writing a long essay. I was rambling freely through these things to L. and suddenly thought: …
Gratuitous Dog Pics
From Jutta: Nhubia gets her lure. Water: still broken, no decisions made.
Dali Fly
Recently, writer Tom Davis put me in touch with master fly- tier Pete Fleischman, thinking correctly that I might have the skin of our local specialty, the Mearn’s quail.Its spotted fethers were neeeded for the”modern” classic salmon fly called the Dali, after the artist of course. Traditional Atlantic salmon flies are strange things, surreal colorful …
Tigger’s Pups #1
Courtesy of John Burchard, who bred them, and Daniela Imre, a co- “grandparent” of the human species: the wonderful rainbow litter of Tigger, bred here, and Prince. Multicolor, smooth and feathered, Kazakh & Arab; all progenitors hunters: the ultimate Silk Road US litter! I am tempted by the little brindle girl and the feathered tri(s?), …
Uhlan: Tazi Self -Esteem
My old friend David Zincavage has a blog featuring his patented brand of ferocity and political opinion (see “Never Yet Melted” in blogroll) but when writing on his own canine companions to his friends he is at his funniest. Here he is on Uhlan, who, it will not surprise you to know, is Ataika’s nephew: …