Sent by Black Dog Lady, from a mentor, on her dogs and true “oriental sighthounds” generally: “These dogs are not fully domesticated, take care to keep them that way.”
Author: Steve Bodio
A thought
In response to Matt, from me: “Good but overwhelming holidays have me exhausted. MUST adjust to reduced energy which will paradoxically leave me more, and stop doing a bad job of being 30 so I can do a good one of being 60 plus…”
A quote
From Johnny UK: “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading” — Henny Youngman
Beaches in two Hemispheres
Tazis and horses, maritime habitats, family & friends, Scotland and west Australia, Mark McBride and Chantal Parratt, even fierce little cousin Nura…
Some Replies–Eagles for Jim, “UFO Area” for Chas…
Below, Jim Cornelius wrote: “Caught an episode of Human Planet on Saturday, featuring a 16-year-old Kazakh making his first hunt with an eagle he had captured and trained. They had a camera mounted on the eagle. OH, MAN! I want to see an entire movie on this type of hunting in IMAX.” Actually, a wonderful …
Renaissance Saluki
An image from the 1500’s, oldest western one I know of, by Federico Zuccaro, courtesy of Jess. Anyone have any info on the artist?
Happy New Year!
Slightly idiotic photos… farewell to 2011
And welcome 2012! A New Year’s party, the first I can remember attending in– decades?– at our home bar, the legendary Golden Spur, yards not miles from Casa Q, my watering hole for some thirty years, Peculiar’s first “regular”, Eli’s from birth a few months ago, and where Phil Grayson grew up (his father used …
Gratuitous dogs
Tavi tazi entranced by the snow; Vladimir’s Onana, who looks uncannily like Ataika; Taik.
“But it doesn’t snow in the southwest!”
Actually said to me a few years ago by a New Jersey Nuevo, in July. As the property he bought was on a dirt road at 7500 feet in Catron county, where the winters can be positively Montanan, I knew he was in for a surprise… The illusion remains. I was idly watching morning TV …