You might have figured it out in comments below but it is official: because the Feds are allowing a three- decade exemption for wind farms to kill as many eagles as they “need” to, and because they exert no pressure on tribal use (right and understandable for religious practice, but ignoring the profitable if clandestine …
Author: Steve Bodio
Two for the Books
From Joe Queenan’s bibliophile’s memoir One for the Books: “Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.” “I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.”
Saluki Art
From Barbara, who I hope will move here and run her hounds
Gratuitous (and wonderful) dog pic
Bodie and his new boy relaxing…
Another teaser
I will find out more. But this possible state record was taken about ten miles away, just north of Lee Henderson’s ranch where we hunt. The terrain in the middle photos is low down (well, only 6500 feet) and already rugged; similar rocky conditions prevail right up to the peak. Stay tuned… We saw sheep, …
This is not a dead dove
It is made of, carved from, WOOD. A teaser. I know I have been channeling Magritte a bit in titles lately, but this is uncanny. Much more to come shortly…
Peter O’Toole, 1932- 2013, RIP
Yeah, Lawrence. Great movie. For less serious or epic, try The Stunt Man. I wish I had seen him on stage doing Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Look it up. A memorable entrance:
Neurology Blog
My post is up at UNM Health Sciences Center Blog. Excerpt: “It is part of the proper definition of Parkinson’s Disease that Parkinson’s is a “progressive” neurological disease. As I am a writer and work with words every day, I know exactly what the sentence means and why it is phrased that way; it describes …
Crawhall
There are certainly “writers’ writers”; I believe there are painter’s painters. Tom Quinn has relentlessly high standards– he admires Durer’s hare, and the zen paintings of Samurai swordsman turned artist Musashi. He once asked me if I had seen a particular painting of a white common pigeon, saying that he sometimes thought it was the …
My other favorite raptor painting…
It’s a goshawk, probably to no one’s surprise– a tiny watercolor by Tom Quinn, “Two Shades of Blue”. The week after he painted it he sent me a transparency, writing “This fell out of my brush…” The painted gos is actually smaller in real life (of the painting I mean) than a Steller’s jay, her …