Ranching is not just some archaic way of life practiced only by Neanderthal reactionaries, as some urban columnists have recently implied. The unique and innovative Deep Springs College is also a working cattle ranch, and always has been one. In a splendid photo essay, Jack Frishman captures the spring gathering and branding.
Author: Steve Bodio
Wendy Glenn
I don’t have a lot of facts at my fingertips about Wendy, and those who loved her have better things to do than run them down for me today. I don’t need them, really. Wendy was the organizing half of one of the most perfect teams I have ever known. She took care of the …
Wendy Glenn, 1940- 2014, RIP
I will have a lot more to say tomorrow. Wendy and Warner Glen, with unfailing humor and hard work, run– ran?– a model ranch in SE Arizona, and by force of personality they have forged unlikely bonds between ranchers and conservation groups. Wendy was the voice of not just the Malpai Borderlands, but for all …
Niki climbs
My daughter- in- law married a man, Jack (Andrew Jackson) Frishman, who is himself the result of TWO people with a climbing lineage falling in love. Grandpa Ken Adam was on a T shirt depicting him rappelling from Lower Cathedral Spire in Yosemite in the 40’s *. So it is pretty natural to want to …
Training
Very busy and a bit under the weather, so expect photos and no long text. Here are pics of Daniel’s recent training. Call me provincial– I didn’t know they had places like that in California.
More taigans from Jutta
Doesn’t the big black one look like a “psovoya” borzoi? (Russian wolfhound in the west. “Borzoi” in Russian means sighthound– we have “tasy- borzois”, “Angliskaya borzois”– greyhounds– and so forth). UPDATE: See the whole collection here
Stunningly Stupid
… even for “Reality” TV. Paul Domski writes: “The Discovery Channel has a program called “Naked and Afraid” where they send people to exotic places with no clothes or food and watch them as make their living, what a thrill right? Anyway a recent episode shot in Bolivia featured this A-hole apparently killing and roasting …
Caption?
From Jonathan Hanson. UPDATE: I think Dennis has the winner: “Halten Sie mein Bier und beobachten Sie diese” (Hold my beer and watch this).
“Animals make us human” (Temple Grandin)
I have a new essay, “Old Friends”, up in the “Hunting Makes Us Human” series put out by the Center for Humans and Nature. And there is a lot more to find there if you wander around a bit…
Taigans!
Jutta Rubesam lives in Germany and has been a constant presence here through her Nhubia and Taalai, the two talented canine dancers who often grace our Weekend Doggage. In times past she visited New Mexico and took some of my favorite photos of my own dogs. Now she has been to Kyrgizstan and the shores …