New Tim Murphy

Enjoy these- they will only be up for a month… September, an Ode Song for the Sandhills Forested shoulders sloping down its valley, the Sheyenne carves its way through North Dakota to Agassiz, lakebed of the Red River. I pass a timber truck to prove that logging endures far east of our Montana mountains. Certainly …

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More Mushrooms

Not only have the belated rains kept them coming; perhaps edible Mycology is meme that has finally come to Magdalena. VLA near highway     The day of our hunt, we worked our way down Bear Trap Canyon, which runs south from Monica saddle in the San Mateos to finally emerge in ranchland, on our …

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Late Mushrooms

We are going in search of late boletes tomorrow in the San Mateos, But so far this season all we have is this lonely clutch of lobsters from the White Mountains of Arizona from Simon Armijo.These delicious parasites are more consistent from year to year because they are only found above 10,000 feet, and our …

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Heinz Meng, 1925 – 2015: RIP

Heinz Meng in the 70s. Dr Heinz Meng of New Paltz NewYork, a long -time professor of Zoology at the State University there and the man who first bred falcons in captivity in the US (Not in the WORLD as many news reports chauvinistically state; Renz Waller bred several in Germany before the war, and …

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John Craighead is 100

 And he doesn’t look much older than he did when Libby and I attended his and his late twin  brother Frank’s 80th birthday party at Moose, Wyoming 20 years ago. (fuzzy photo from invitation) We actually had separate invitations- Libby had babysat the now middle- aged kids of both, and I had long ago written …

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The Wild Rumpus

We know well that having a  puppy and a new bird may be FUN, but not easy. For Phil and Kerri (and Lane):

A Poem for the New Dogs

Margory Cohen sent this, by the late, great, and much- missed Vicki Hearne: The New Hound Puppy Now it is time for her name – Start the call.  The time may comeFor her job, which is to runHoles in the palpable wind Hallowed by world and the worldWill collapse, follow this houndThrough meteoric  valleys. Wolf-shag …

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