I am in the throes of completing Eagle. It is the hardest part, at least for me– getting all the illos, paying, begging (often repeatedly) for promised material, scanning (all slide scans must be done in Albuquerque, 100 miles away, and I don’t HAVE them all yet) and arranging them to Reaktion’s arcane system (on …
Author: Steve Bodio
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“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” Paul Theroux (HT About Last night).
More Dogs n’ Birds
Paul’s Zoltar, son of Kyran and Ataika, pensive… … and in the field: A fresh- trapped NM Gos, sadly not mine: The late tazi “Gos” from Kurdistan– those eyes are appropriate! And Vladimir’s new “Sanct Petersburg” tazi pup Timur– new genes,and beautiful!
An Osprey Walks into a Bar…
My brother Mark, who lives in the Virgin Islands, was in his favorite bar when someone brought him this rescue osprey (Bodios are well known bird people). According to Mark, all will be well.
Links
Animal Rights proponents demand that those who want a dog go only to the “overpopulated” shelters. So why are shelters going out of the country to get thousands more dogs? “When animal shelters started going overseas to fill their emptying kennels, some worried the imported strays would bring foreign diseases and even rabies into the …
Nature Writing: Robert Macfarlane
My recent reading of Robert Macfarlane’s fascinating The Wild Places made me think a lot about the differences between (current) American and English “nature writing”, and why I usually like the second better. There are many reasons and not all are related. English nature and natural history writing, like the (I would argue related) genre …
A Few from Almaty
I couldn’t make it to the Primitive Breeds Conference in Almaty Kazakhstan this year, which is too bad because many of my friends did. Here are two friends, saluki man and Arabist Sir Terence Clark and Vladimir Beregovoy, who is now based in Virginia. He is a biologist, an expert on primitive breeds, and a …
The Pups
Some of our pups at a few months more than a year. John Burchard’s Tigger in the field in California. Sherri Beregovoy’s Clio has a false pregnancy and is hoarding toys which she treats as pups. Sure looks like her mother (below). Clio’s sister Larissa, who we kept, at the ranch. Monica’s Nemrah, another NM …
Absent?
In the past two weeks I have finished 4000 words for a forthcoming book on the art of Tom Quinn, had the Peculiars as guests for a week, and screwed up my back by hiking up a canyon with a yielding floor of washed- out gravel. Now four books have arrived in the mail to …
The Ranch
We often speak of “The Ranch”– Lee Henderson’s acreage of miles of high desert grassland, canyon, and foothill, located on La Jencia Plain under the Magdalenas and not touching pavement on any side. It is an idael place to run dogs and fly falcons. I thought you might like to see a few pix. Here …