We had our first cold snap last night and it somehow has me thinking of the family of snipe, mysterious and delicious migrants. Got them on the wall, pictures of hunts past, and memories, but sure would like to hunt either. Snipe are in the state at least; Tom Daly shot these in Colorado before …
Author: Steve Bodio
Found Quote
From an article called “The Hound and the Fury” in Esquire for April, 1985, the travel issue; by Alan Furst, now our finest spy novelist, specializing in WW II and before: “Once you own a sight hound– Afghan, Borzoi, Saluki, greyhound, and whippet and some of the others– you are addicted for life.”
Hound Pix of the week
Lure coursing– Jutta Rubesam’s Nhubia in Germany:
Larissa at Burning Man
Larissa (the tall original human one, not the swift red one) dances at Burning Man. I mean, she is not just a– did I say TALL, drop- dead gorgeous, Russian American goddess, classical actress, a writer of books, and arts critic, she is a PERFORMER. My friend Anne, another St John’s graduate (Johnnie), as are …
Shiri & our hounds
Shiri, who usually supplies action photos of the kids, visits, and snaps us. And I her… Flying Tav, Taik, Lash, yours truly, a bemused Shiri…
Burton Apache: ?- Sept 2012
Sadly, I have not just this one but several elegies due for lost friends recently, some of whom I knew better than Burt, some still to write. But his death this week hit me strangely hard, perhaps because he was more than ten years younger than me. Burton was a member of the Alamo, our …
Unproductive…
… but extremely pleasant opening day, on Pieter Ditmars’ Dunhill sheep ranch south of town. We saw one dove. Pete shot it. SB with Model 12 20, PD with old Orvis AyA sidelock. The food and company beat the shooting.
Malarial Memories
Reid sent this optimistic press release on a promising new one- dose treatment for malaria, which brought back vivid memories of my brush with an almost- lethal case of Zimbabwe falciparum in the nineties. The writer remembers: “I have personally had malaria… and can say that it is a deeply painful and depleting experience that …
Shiri Photos
Far Away and Long Ago
Me “teaching” at Wildbranch Writing Workshop, Sterling College, in Craftsbury Common, Vermont; 1990- what? Dark(ish) hair anyway! Janisse Ray (right of me, black vest) and Kansas poet H C Palmer (balding head toward camera) needed little but encouragement…