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 …

Read more

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.

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 …

Read more

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…

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 …

Read more