Tom Russell’s song from “Blood and Candle Smoke”, sung by Gretchen Peters, and Guadalupe herself, painted by Tom. You can see his paintings, including I believe the original of this print, at Rainbow Man gallery in Santa Fe. He began last week’s show with this haunting song. We do have an oddly eclectic “collection”– she …
Author: Steve Bodio
True Biologist Cartoon
Courtesy of John Wilson… double or right click to enlarge.
Blast from the past
Picture of Lib and dog Ruch in the Escalante in ’73, when she used to walk to Everest Base Camp…
Wilson Photos
Relative newcomers John and Carolyn Wilson are becoming serious documenters of the phenology of local wildlife and photographers of same (with real lenses). They supply constant water on their forest- edge holding 12 miles from town, which has already paid off in photos of bandtail pigeon and goshawk. Now John has gotten a good portrait …
George Jones: 1933- 2013
A great country singer died today. This photo of him in the 70’s in NYC pre- dates photoshop. Andy Warhol, George, Tom Russell: George Jones, R.I.P.
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“… as soon as I went in the door I immediately recalled how great an experience a good bookstore was, to which the browsing we do on computers is as phone sex compared to sex.”– Michael Gruber
Passenger Pigeons # 2
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I ended last with: So, where were the pigeons? They were always inhabitants of the deciduous forest, eating nuts and berries. It seems impossible for the pigeon to have existed in anything like the numbers it eventually attained. And a passenger pigeon without its niche and numbers is nothing more …
Snakebit!
Two of our beloved tazluki relatives got snakebit by what seems, judging from the fang marks to have been a large rattler, at Daniela’s. Incredibly, 15 year old Lahav got the better of it, while grandog Shunkar seemed to have some eye involvment. Both better now– will pass on any news. I don’t hate snakes …
Why Quammen’s Spillover is worth Your Time
David Quammen’s new book Spillover, on emergent diseases; or more specifically, on emergent zoonoses, came out a few months ago to a series of middling good but somehow lukewarm reviews. I vehemently disagree, but it takes a bit of unfolding. Why do some readers find such a book fascinating while others find it dull? First: …
Rungius Letter!
Serendipity: not only did I pick up several interesting books at Nick Potter’s in Santa Fe; in my “new” copy of the uncommon 1948 Knopf Borzoi sporting book, Russell Annabel’s Hunting and Fishing in Alaska (which I have been looking for for years) I found a letter by the greatest painter of American (or any?) …