Nothing amiss- the camera ran out of juice just as Libby was beginning to take photos, and we are awaiting others’ pics. Here are a few, some “stolen” from Linda Smiley’s newsletter. Cousin Nina McCabe and Holly Hagy, Ghost riders Me & Bodie in Shelby Mustang. John L Moore says ” Still a rascal after …
Author: Steve Bodio
Old dog
The tragic thing about Scottish deerhounds is their short life span- even HALF deerhounds, like my old dog Riley (left), may only live nine years. His brother Ruffus, even bigger- he killed an antelope once- lived to only eight. So it is with great pleasure that I announce the thirteenth birthday of Margory Cohen’s Stella. …
Gunny in native dress
Gunny, Tina Garfield’s Anatolian, is the biggest dog we know, bigger even than other flock protection dogs. Libby used to weigh him on the postal scales when he was a baby. He thinks he still fits on it. Tina just got him a proper Turkish dress collar. He doesn’t quite know what to make of …
Indian Vultures
I wrote soberly on the Indian Vulture crisis years ago in the Atlantic. They continued to decline; nobody gives a damn about serious whiny articles. Today, my friend Jemima “Mima” Parry Jones, daughter of the grand old falconer Philip Glasier, sent me this YouTube piece of pro- vulture propaganda, and I am envious- it will …
Parallel Climates
As PB said: ” Dogs and Hawks and you all understand.”
New Poems from Tim Murphy
To Stephen Bodio I dreamed I was striding beside your horse, dogs coursing in the mist, the falcon on your fist husbanding her inconceivable force. Shahin, hoping that we were hunting quail, spiraled aloft to hover as we quartered her cover. Over the brush we saw a single sail, then broke …
Esmeralda
Silliest and most engaging hawk we have ever had. Courts Libby continually. She is making a nest of shredded Wall St Journals behind her perch, which she tres to lure Libby into. Bathes in a cooking pot… We have heard that baby Aplos are the only falcons with dark down. Her (more or less constant, …
A Small film of Helen
In which she says nice things about me. It is very pretty, too… For real substance, read this Sierra Club interview. I have a million ideas starting up just from reading it… Helen, I need to pick your brain!
Parade
I have, to my mild shock, been elected unanimously to the post of Grand Marshall for the Magdalena Old Timers’ Parade. That means I lead the parade, folks; sadly, the herd of half- wild Corriente cattle they used to drive through town ahead of it has gone the way of the street dance in the …
Summer Woodcock
Georgia friend Gil Stacy has more sense than we did when I hunted Woodcock: he keeps some for the summer mushroom harvests… chanterelles in this case. Also notice the color of the cut flesh. Like all good Woodcock (and snipe) cooks, he sort of passes them through a very hot oven. I get tired of …