It is NOT hot here and rarely is, something I despair of making those who equate New Mexico with Arizona understand (NM is one of the highest states in the Union). Greg, Our friend and Lib’s boss at the PO, had to visit his father in Texas and sent us this pic with the label …
Author: Steve Bodio
Weekend Photoblogging
Anticipating Boletus soon (AKA Cepes, Porcini); the monsoons have returned as has cool weather in the mountains. Lib a few years ago with a choice specimen.
Another Gratuitous Riss Pic
From Shiri: being silly and puppyish…
Travelers’ trails…
… sometimes cross. Lauren has been studying and adventuring in Kazakhstan, and sends photos both silly and sublime. Humor first- I’ll let her narrate: ” I went through an ordeal to try and get this well pump to work in the deep desert. It was so hot, I ended up wearing a shawl, the thinnest …
Priorities
Reacting to Kathy’s good comment below, I thought I would post some pix of Casa Q, to remind readers that while we live well we do NOT live in a palace… Recently half of the dying cottonwood in the yard cracked and fell into it, luckily missing the hawk house. Omar, neighbor, bird hunting partner, …
Constant Apprentice
My dear friends Roseann and Jonathan Hanson, writers, scholars, adventurers, Arizonans, Africanists, connoisseurs of the good life, have (re)started a blog, The Constant Apprentice. I have the highest expectations. Here are a few images of them from my own files… I will let them explain the saber toothed skunk puppet…
SIlk Road redux
From Dmitry Kosyrev, author of the Silk Road Trilogy, via Kickstarter: “My dear friends, Americans, a few Russians from Russia, all 111 of you, plus many more who will read my novels after their successful funding: “What you did in suport of my books, letting them be published in USA, means that somebody needs the …
What…
IS Larissa doing? Photo via Mrs. Peculiar…
Mannlicher Schoenauer 1903 6.5 X 54
Thanks to readers, especially Malcolm in Montana, I have just gotten one- a unique one at that, and at a good price. Tools and loads are coming in from him and Steve in Washington, and another rifle was offered by the Atomic Nerds. Sometimes I love the Internet… For non- rifle nerds (or as John …
We did it!
The Russian Life Silk Road Trilogy translation project is funded, in the eleventh hour– and it couldn’t have happened without Q Blog readers, who are at least a third of the 100 or so patrons (many first names only and not all up yet). Special thanks to Sari Mantila in Finland, who was my web …