Still hoping someone somewhere has an “extra” Goshawk–!! Facts: no more permits available for NM birds until next year. Colorado won’t let its birds out. I don’t have a vehicle that would make it to, say, Idaho even if I had no obligations. I haven’t enough money to buy a breeder’s bird outright (though I’d …
Author: Steve Bodio
What Remains
Or “Culling II”. I find the specificity of (very diverse) categories left in what I must call my “nature” section fascinating. Before there was so much stuff in there that it would have been hard to see categories beyond that vague term. Maybe negative as in “not too much botany or herpetology” though both exist …
Culling the Library
In a recent discussion with Chas he spoke of culling his library and I recoiled in horror. I do so in an ongoing context, and I thought there was no need to do any more. Then one restless and sleepless night I was prowling my library and realized that there was a corner I had …
Bilibin
Artist friend Nance McManus sent me this wonderful image by the 20th century Russian artist Ivan Bilibin. I wasn’t aware of him, but there is a lot on Wiki here, including many wonderful paintings and other images. I won’t be owning one soon– Sotheby’s asking price for “The Hunt” was in the middle hundreds of …
Another Travel Essay..
… from Phillip Grayson, who will soon be reporting from Poland. The Number 1 Most Secret Best Part of Istanbul The first thing one should do on arriving in Istanbul is hop in a cab and head to your hotel in Taksim, the downtown heart of cosmopolitan Istanbul. There are cheaper hotels in the center …
Soon..
A book review (Rob MacFarlane’s The Wild Places). Why public land ranching has one major environmental GOOD effect. Related: while it is good to bring back wolves it is also good to kill (some of) them; and why how you reintroduce them is also important. Doves Wyatt Earp.
Alumni
Far Away and Long Ago (in Craftsbury Common, Vermont to be exact) Annie Proulx started a writing workshop and talked me into being the first instructor, though I had never taught anything before. Two of my students published good books this year. Both are far wiser and older than I, and have written before, but …
Querencia- The- Book
Posting on Peter Bowen reminds me of something potentially important. With the help of Peter and his lawyer, Mark Hartwig, I have regained not only the rights to the book Querencia but also to the remaining physical books. I’ll doubtless start selling them here, and who knows what else? Suggestions encouraged…
Rat Hunting Men
Many years ago (1980) Peculiar’s late father, Harry Frishman, was a member of the first American climbing party in China since the Thirties, in an attempt to climb Minya Kanka in Szechuan. The trip turned into an epic of adventure and disaster– I’ll let Libby or Mr. P tell it somewhere. But before the climb …
What a Man’s Gotta Do
Recently, Popular Mechanics published a distinctly odd list of Skills Every Man Should Know. Some are good ones, but.. Extend your wireless network? Retouch digital photos?? (I can, by the way). I don’t think there are many capsizing boats within 75 miles. Bolt action rifle? Why not, for instance, an auto pistol? Nothing about cooking? …