In honor of her move from her almost- natal Newton MA to North Carolina, I thought I would post these photos of Bron Fullington. I may also post later on some linguistic weirdness Jackson sent on her old neighborhood, and her thoughts. TOMORRROW! Last spring… Yes, that is Betsy Huntington about to shoot a Retrieve- …
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Old & very old guns
Latest restorations. More text later. But the 12 “featherweight” handles like a Best Brit gun, while the “Askins- Keith special” 16 is almost 8 pounds and has 30″ barrels and tight chokes. The prairies were not bucolic England… To see the details like Damascus, click to enlarge…
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Sixty- Three
… posts til #4000. On June 5, 2005, I wrote the first, rather casually, never dreaming that a blog would become part of my writing life… Several books, a step- grandson, Parkinson’s, many friends gone… Selling some guns I should not have (well I do that every WEEK)… I need without question to write a …
Update on “Beebesaurus”
… also known as Microraptor gui. I painted it a sort of irridescent black, to conform with what is known about its feathers. Can’t believe how much it looks like Beebe’s bookplate in his pre- WW I (1910) book Our Search for a Wilderness. Microraptor was dug up in China in 2003.
The Kids Know…
Dinos had feathers! Eli’s 4th birthday card… feathered T rex by Jackson. Article coming in Living Bird…
Road Books
My thesis for years has been that there are three great 1950’s “Road” books. Two are obvious to the literate: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The other may be MORE obvious to naturalists, many of whom miss one or the other of the first two; Wild America, by Roger Tory Peterson …
Driving with Animals
Charley Waterman used to say. of a dog that always occupied the driving seat when the humans were absent, that she knew driving was important, and that somebody had to do it; she just didn’t know how.
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“In my rucksack I took Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia and Hemingway’s In Our Time. Six months later I came back with the bones of a book that, this time, did get published. While stringing its sentences together, I thought that telling stories was the only conceivable occupation for a superfluous person such as myself.” Bruce …