As PB said: ” Dogs and Hawks and you all understand.”
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New Poems from Tim Murphy
To Stephen Bodio I dreamed I was striding beside your horse, dogs coursing in the mist, the falcon on your fist husbanding her inconceivable force. Shahin, hoping that we were hunting quail, spiraled aloft to hover as we quartered her cover. Over the brush we saw a single sail, then broke …
Esmeralda
Silliest and most engaging hawk we have ever had. Courts Libby continually. She is making a nest of shredded Wall St Journals behind her perch, which she tres to lure Libby into. Bathes in a cooking pot… We have heard that baby Aplos are the only falcons with dark down. Her (more or less constant, …
A Small film of Helen
In which she says nice things about me. It is very pretty, too… For real substance, read this Sierra Club interview. I have a million ideas starting up just from reading it… Helen, I need to pick your brain!
Parade
I have, to my mild shock, been elected unanimously to the post of Grand Marshall for the Magdalena Old Timers’ Parade. That means I lead the parade, folks; sadly, the herd of half- wild Corriente cattle they used to drive through town ahead of it has gone the way of the street dance in the …
Summer Woodcock
Georgia friend Gil Stacy has more sense than we did when I hunted Woodcock: he keeps some for the summer mushroom harvests… chanterelles in this case. Also notice the color of the cut flesh. Like all good Woodcock (and snipe) cooks, he sort of passes them through a very hot oven. I get tired of …
Raymond
Raymond Scully checked in to tell me he was doing the reading for the Audible Edition’s version of Hounds. I was delighted, because Raymond had previously read for Eagle Dreams, and had done an incredible job. He studies the manuscript minutely, and asks me about any pronunciation he has doubts about. This time, he sent …
It’s a book!
The Hounds of Heaven is a book, though I have not seen it yet… Good thoughts and prayers for George please, who is in a critical point of his chemo.Get better and get out here!
Party!
After a slightly exhausting week, the much – postponed party finally straggled in to Reid and Connie’s country manse in Parker CO on Saturday. Not every one could make it (Smokey Paul and Lynne met us at a Santa Fe highway exit to hand over a pistol for Carlos — we still live in a …
Purdeys and such
Gun nuts are persistent, and nobody is leaving me in peace about the Purdey, so ONE more post, mostly a reply to my old Canadian friend “Lucas Machias”. I DID have a hammer Grant, a near equivalent and an original, not a restored gun, which I foolishly– since it cost a lot less- let go– …