He looks pretty relaxed these days. Now to find him some quarry…. The next is from another life, forty- some years ago, when I lived in the January Hills, ate roadkill, and edited a journal of Renaissance studies. That’s Cinammon, one of the two best hawks I have ever had, stolen from me not once …
Author: Steve Bodio
It’s a book!
Tiger Country is available from the publisher, in various formats… and from Amazon here. Some good people have said nice things about it. Malcolm Brooks, the hyper- literate author of Painted Horses, says: “Steve Bodio brings his legendary Renaissance vision to this startling first novel, a work so mammoth in scope and elegant in execution …
Quote
“The land was not to blame. It was up to the individual to decide whether to live here or not…” Chingiz Aitmatov
Ever Closer
It’s coming … I have lost the mustache because it made me look deader than old. Using this pic:
The Hawk
Until last week he was the worst hawk I have ever owned, the worst hawk in the world, a complete malimprint, the only one i have ever owned save a crazy redtail in 1967. My first wife Bronwen Fullington reminded me of him when I told her of this one; she well remembered the time …
The Artist’s Son: for my Father
A version of this appeared in Anglers last year, but in a low- toned gentle version that made my Dad simply a sad nice guy. Fact is, Joe Bodio was not a sad nice guy. He was a passionate conflicted sometimes brilliant guy who first taught me to love his passions- fishing, hunting, art– and …
Kaa’s Hunting– Eli’s version
My step- grandson Eli turned 7 the other day, and I am gratified that he is becoming a proper “Rudyardite” (see Kipling;s own “The Jane[Austen]ites” for clarification). The Jungle Books are full of violence, predation, and even war (“Red Dog” ) but they give a child a chance to see that while evil and violence …
Big Snake
A bull or “gopher” snake crosses our road at sunset to deal with the plague of mice that resulted as we shut down the big pigeon loft. Or so I hope.
Is Felis concolor the Boojum?
“He had softly and suddenly vanished away For the snark WAS a Boojum you see…” In Memoriam: David Robinson Update: it WASN’T a Boojum.Investigation continues….
I still like Gyrs
And near Gyrs and hybrids of all kinds and Sakers– “Itilgas”– best. Unfortunately most of my hunting pics were swallowed by the computer, so these are rather domestic,but I hope to reclaim some when I switch over.