Jameson Parker wrote: “Dear Libby, “After I fell off a ladder several years ago, a friend tossed off the following very wise if unsympathetic observation:’No one over the age of sixty should be allowed to even own a ladder.’ “
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Pepe’s Art
My old pigeon partner Jose Morales y Serranno, who met his wife , an Albuquerqe native of Italian descent, returned to Sevilla after getting his PhD in English- speaking writers of the Spanish Civil War. Despite occasional political disagreements- like Pepe’s fellow traveler on the left Stephen Spender, I will never think of Roy Campbell …
Slow recovery
Libby’s mood is better than her face, or her ribs…
Art Show and Catalogue
“Our” art show opened in Memphis this week and by all accounts is a total success. How could it not be with walls like these? And especially paintings like this: !Here is the book, with my contribution. Buy it, you won’t regret it! Thanks especially to the perfect editor and curator, Kevin Sharp; to Toby …
Scenes from George’s Funeral
With sharks: A few of the family: My Georgia brother Mike, self described redneck, horticulturalist and small- time farmer, birder, and maker of the finest preserves know to man, with the twins, Judi and Janine, up from PA: Sister Anita St John with her husband Matt, old time rocker, and daughter Stella. She is the …
Libby’s Accident (and the Urban Accipiter Phenomenon)
By now at least half the town knows that Lib fell off a ladder tending to the pigeons in the “trap” on top of the pigeon loft. I use “trap” in quotes, because normally it is a pigeon racer’s term for sort of double entrance chamber used in racing pigeon competitions to control access. But …
Eli’s New Interest
The Solar System:
Why Dinos (apart from having feathers)..
… are weirder than you CAN imagine … XKCD tip from artist John Conway’s Twitter feed.
Old Days Mag #1
Unruh
Jack Unruh was a fine artist who did the best, or at least the most interesting, illustrations for many magazines , especially ones of the Time- Life Group, for over 50 years. One of his last regular assignments was doing the pic for the humor column by Bill Heavey at the end of Field and …