Larissa stayed with us for a week while Shiri visited the coast. Here she is reunited with her, as mother Ataika competes for attention.
Author: Steve Bodio
New Creature
Annie Davidson sent this video of a new siphonophore, more beautiful and odder than a Portuguese Man o’ War, the only well- known member of the family. Was it Arthur Wilderson who recently observed that the ocean’s abyss is full of “new” life forms, as odd as anything in science fiction?
Out of place?
Last week, on a hot late summer day, Libby noticed an unusual butterfly feeding on the back yard flowers, so placidly she was able to get me out to photograph it. It was the color of a Luna moth but obviously a butterfly; the raised, leaf- like ribs on its wings had me wondering if …
Back….
Exhausted, happy, SLOW. I will not attempt to get everything out immediately. Suffice for now to say that the “gathering of the clans” was a success, and that we all had fun. Jim blogged our night at Malcolm’s signing here. More photos: A Central Asian dinner, with Russians metaphorical and real: And art, and …
Break
Off to Denver for a reading by Malcolm Brooks, for Painted Horses. Not sure if, this fall, I might not take a short or long break, as things get more physically difficult and slow, as work gets shunted to the side by more ephemeral writing. ?? Bear with me, and wish me luck…
Literary Quote
In art, one is not compelled to choose sides, one poet or novelist at the expense of another. Beckett and Larkin are not mutually exclusive tastes. One feels no pressure to be consistent. Aesthetic love is promiscuous without being unfaithful. One loves Swift and Henry James, Italo Svevo and Barbara Pym. Rigorous consistency in matters …
No Boletes
Our strange hot year and its half broken drought left us no boletes. Below, Bear Trap campground in the San Mateos this weekend, and (see tree for position) 2006.
Muscaria
I actually don’t know many mushroomers; in southern New Mexico, just we and the Armijos, and the blogger MDMN and his wife at Sometimes Far Afield; and since they moved to Roswell we don’t even see them that often. It is a mixed blessing; no “mushroom jams” at the side of the Forest Service roads, …
Mycology
Going out to look for Boletus edulis this weekend. Here is a collage from previous years. (I am enjoying these photo posts to set the season; never fear, writing will return soon). I assume any reader knows me; others, in order of appearance: Lib, daughter-in-law Niki Mazzia Frishman, Connie Farmer, Della and Simon Armijo (the …
Opening day, Dunhill Ranch, with New Mexico Miscellany…
2012 and 2014 (what were we doing in 2013?), both with no game in the bag, though this year we saw plenty and expect to get some doves, and with luck GOOD quail. Best grass in years, food plants everywhere, cottontails same, and probably more jacks. Deer sign. If we have a snowy winter we …