A :Dave Petzal, Field & Stream’s resident curmudgeon (and the main if not only reason to read that mag any more) was asked why he had such a bad attitude. He responded: “Because I have had the opportunity to observe human beings for seven decades, and if you do it for that long and don’t …
Author: Steve Bodio
Valentine Dogs
From Shiri: Riss and Tavi. And– on a “new” computer, how do I center photos?
Goshawks in Love
Courtesy of Pecular. Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a link to a bigger version of the photograph, and here is one to the photographer, photoblogger Juanma Hernandez: Gos photos and more, including the first action scenes I have ever seen of a wryneck…
Minor announcement, and one more interesting…
I was bemused to see I was just declared to be in the top ten percent of people searched for at LinkedIn. This is only remarkable because (1) there are twenty MILLION people in that network; (2) I have never done much with it– I mean, I TWEET more; and (3) as my father used …
VERY Big Puppy
Tina Garfield is spending some of the winter down on the warmer Texas coast with her Anatolian livestock guardian pup Gunny. Look what difference three months makes! He is the small one above…
Spur Dance; Benefit for the San Augustin Water Coalition
We went to the dance, paid our fee, and logged on to Montana’s laptop to petition Governor Martinez. It was not a time for subtlety; my “letter” was “Don’t STEAL our water!” Matt Middleton, Darryl Pettis, and the bar staff ran a tight show. There were more ranch folks than I had seen in years, …
Arabia Steamboat Museum
… which may be the most unusual museum I have ever seen, not just in KC. The Arabia was a commercial Missouri river two- paddle steamer (its wheels, one restored and running, were 28 feet high, its length 130 feet; despite its topheavy overloaded superstructure it could float in two feet of water when empty, …
Buildings and Food
More marvels of KC: We had hoped to go to a larger museum that features the work of the weird regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, but it was closed both days that we were there. A small modern art museum and the most unique museum I ever seen, based on a single sunken ship were, however, …
Kansas City
I had come to KC to participate in a study of Parkinson’s based on analysis of people who had a certain genetic marker that predisposed them toward it– not sufficient in itself but perhaps necessary. KC was the nearest of the three cities to us, it was on the sleeper train, we had a good …
Train not in vain
The next posts will be on the last few fascinating if tiring days– Amtrak sleeper, a civilized way to ride; Kansas City, a good friend, some med workups, unique museums, BARBECUE; back to the Spur and water battle… Here is my snug little sleeping box, just big enough for my stuff. Pretty good for sleeping …