Lots of photoblogging coming today because I have a ton of good images. First, an Irish team:
Author: Steve Bodio
Quote
“Work that does not lead directly to food should be forbidden in fall.” – Carlos Martinez del Rio
Photoblog: China, early 20th C.
A collage of sorts. Explain, improvise, interpret, or even deconstruct. UPDATE. Everyone in comments had the idea. The elements: books on China by the American Museum’s Roy Chapman Andrews, “Indiana Jones”, before he ever got to “outer” Mongolia and its fossils, and his China host, missionary, ornithologist and big game hunter Harry Caldwell. Caldwell hunted …
The wheel turns
The great season song, the great New England song, the song that haunts me. Take it, Tom… Bron, Karen, this one is for you.
Weekend Dogs: Teddy’s Teckels
In his comment below, Gil mentions a hunting dachshund. Our own late Diamond Lil was another, but for the best hunting dachshund pics we go to Teddy Moritz, who bred our Lil. Here is Lil, and a few of Teddy’s through the years. And Teddy’s:
At Mark’s: Gratuitous weiner dogs plus
I took a lot of photos at my friend Mark’s “new” office in a historic building here– firearms, animal specimens, and gratuitous dogs. Rather than publish them all in one monster post, I think I will parcel them out. Mark is a fan of bird dogs and dachshunds. He has several dachsies, plus Kena who …
Lobsters
A haul of our most delicious parasitic mushroom, gathered by Simon Armijo in the White Mountains of Arizona, 100 miles west and higher and wetter than ours…
Garden
Last blaze of glory…
New York Carriage horses and their enemies
Like Joel Katz of Bedlam Farm Journal, I think that the case of these horses, well- kept but attracting the attention and money of — I can’t soften it, deranged animal “Rights” activists, possibly backed by the money of cynical real estate interests– is emblematic of our “rather stupid time” (Ortega), and a preview of …
Congratulations Paula! (and reluctant self- promotion)
Friend of the blog Paula Young Lee, writer and hunter, traveler, sometime resident of Paris France, Paris Maine, and Wellesley Mass, has won the Gold Medal for travel book from the Society of American Travel Writers for her book Deer Hunting in Paris. I bet it could as easily win one for hunting book, or …