Courtesy of Jon D’Arpino and the Journal of the North American Falconers Association, with special thanks to Conor Jameson, The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, Helen Macdonald for taking me there and of course Stacia Novy, who got me to write it.
Author: Steve Bodio
T H White: Endpapers for The Sword and the Stone
Way better than Disney:
Mahakala(s): Mongolian Free Association
I took a bunch of Mongolian artifacts to the Magdalena Library Saturday as visual aids to a talk by my friend Ian Jenness. He and his wife had taken the Trans- Siberian to Lake Baikal and Irkutsk, then dropped down to Ulan Bataar, spent a week or so in Mongolia in ger camps, then continued …
Random Photoblogging
In front of me: In front of my house:
T H White Memorial
I am an unabashed fan of Terence Hanbury White; whatever his personal faults and agonies, he left a legacy of good books about things that interest me and my friends– probably all naturalists and writers on country matters and falconers who understand honesty. If he had written just the Arthurian trilogy and The Goshawk he …
SMLE sporter
Well, this one is late. As some may know, Gerry Cox made me an old English sporter out of an SMLE, the kind most fine English makers offered in the early 20th century. He did this out of kindness, friendship, and the challenge, in return for a minor favor. I am not only touched– it …
Teddy’s Team
Just a little photoblogging for today, as I have another deadline. This is Teddy Moritz’s team of Dachshund and Harris, working so well together they barely need a human. Teddy bred our Lil what seems a lifetime ago, and she continues to field her team in places close to civilization on the east coast.
Kurland
Bruce Kurland may be our best still life painter. After studying many masters, he came ‘home’ to do something so old it is original again… See a little (Francis) Bacon in the last? Winslow Homer in the first? Bruce has a new book: Bruce Kurland: Illusion and the Little World. Check it out on Amazon.
Gorbatov and Seton
The live capture of the wolf in the video below put me in mind of a Vadim Gorbatov project I would love to see published in English. Almost twenty years ago a Korean publisher decided to revive the classic Ernest Thompson Seton tale “Lobo”, about a cattle- killing wolf in northern New Mexico; a story …
Traditional Sport in Kyrgizstan
Sent by Sir Terence Clark: UPDATE: I was struck by the smooth gait of the horses and the comfortable seat of the riders in one sequence. I am no great horseman, so was gratified when old cowhand and world class photographer Jay Dusard wrote: “The most amazing segment in the film was the horses that …