What Remains continued

This Filson bag, which has been to every country I have but France: I sent it to Filson to fix the worn leather a few years ago and they offered to REPLACE it. Why bother? A couple of pairs of binos. The green Swarovskis are modern 10 X 42’s., given to me by Pete Dunne …

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Total Change of Subject

For a moment. A friend asked for this atypical (or was it?) but favorite pic of the late Christopher Hitchens, with smoke and a brace of pheasants. Done! This photo was found and sent by Lauren McGough, who I think has been in both Bayaan Ulgii and Thailand in the last week. Nice work if …

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What remains 2: Pigeons

Four pairs, all my self- invented NM Rafenos with a touch of homer, Beauty Homer, and Spanish Barb. The Carriers were just too wild for an old man–TWO hitting the wire and breaking their necks when a  Coop flew by? ( I SAW one do it!) More to come..

What Remains

You keep a few things when you “get rid of everything”. Here is some of what I kept, in guns, in pigeons, in the library,… in hounds. As long s I am in NM (and a lo of other places) I must have this “family” and these tools… My current armory.To some it would look …

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It’s a MARMOT

There has been quite a bit of discussion in my crowd as to what the Bald Eagle in this photo is carrying, with guesses ranging from a cat to a  prairie dog (the last group obviously hasn’t seen an eagle up close!) Keith Brady, who knows the photographer, solved the problem: it is a yellow- …

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Grey Fox

From John Wilson’s camera trap South of town..

Karen’s Visit

Old news by now, but my sister Karen swept through last week for Thanksgiving and conquered, hung out at the Bar and Trading post, visited “Cousin” Sis Olney at the ranch (where she left some of George’s ashes at an occupied Prairie eyrie he had liked) and generally made herself at home with our town …

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Really Back?

Hope so, anyway. I still can’t type, and most dictation software is still iffy, Lib can’t take  dictation because she is pretty deaf especially in the useful ranges… the usual..  Colleen Grayson has attempted to take up some of my working slack (she is the widow of my old friend Steve who owned the bar  …

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Sort of back…

 I assume that the readers of this blog are lucid enough that they realize things have not  exactly been going well.  It is no one thing; it is EVERY thing. It is mortality and decay and entropy and luck, and admitting when you CAN’T play today.. It is realism. Look, fans, I have written some …

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Visions of Helen

“I.m not answering that!” https://youtu.be/TcwmHDCl75U Radio with Lauren: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0d0 With Mary Karr, another absolute favorite: https://youtu.be/TcwmHDCl75U The new TV show: luminously SANE falconry: <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/h-hawk-new-chapter-author-helen-mcdonald-h-hawk-new-chapter/15581/>