Mystery pic

1966. Who, doing what? Right or double click and make it huge…

Hilarious…

.. and irreverent true quote, by Rob Macfarlane (who is as fond of Paddy Leigh Fermor as I am): “This was the man whom the travel writer Robert Macfarlane, reviewing Ms. Cooper’s book in The Guardian, called “a mixture of Peter Pan, Forrest Gump, James Bond and Thomas Browne.”

The Unfeathered Bird: or, why I was in Laramie

Carlos Martinez del Rio, “cyborg naturalist”, polymath, bibliophile, horseman, game cook, teacher, and doubtless a host of other things I don’t know about yet,  is director of the Berry Center Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. In that position, supervising an ever- expanding net woven between science, art, and nature, he decided …

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“Cyborg Naturalists”

Two Wyoming friends who I spent time with last week, Carlos Martinez del Rio and Jeff Lockwood, discuss a new concept of the naturalist. Among other things, I envy Carlos’s library!

Things to come…

I have been riding, eating, working, NETworking, TALKING, listening I hope, eating very well, looking at art, giving intros, looking at specimens, in Laramie, and a bit in Denver — patience! I have a deadline; then: wonderful things coming! Me with passenger pigeons, Denver Carlos Penelope and Libby Me, Old Gunkie, Malcolm Brooks, Ataika, Erdos…

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Courtesy of Reid,we learn that UC Boulder has banned costumes based on Indians, cowboys, “Mexicans” and– costumes?!– white trash. Having spent time at the bar today after the week’s second funeral, I can only conclude that any image of me or my neighbors is now verboten. (Images NOT from today– we don’t take pics at …

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