Who remembers this? ( HT Jonathan) It is an honest-to- God SEARS ad, from the early sixties!
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Good essay
Barry Lopez in Granta. The first quote is so often the writer’s dilemma. “As much as I believed I was fully present in the physical worlds I was traveling through, I understood over time that I was not. More often I was only thinking about the place I was in. Initially awed by an event, …
New Bird
VERY nice new female Aplomado which came with brain installed, including her own ideas about where to sit. She is already flying to the T perch I am using with the Harris below. Stay tuned….
One more light one…
This amazing illo of a mammoth apparently walking out of a frozen bank is from a 19th c childrens’ travel book. The text is sensible enough but the ilustration almost made me buy the book..
Playing with Food
Because sometimes it’s fun to play with your food – a coyote in western Wyoming this morning.
A Little Place Marker
Plenty of material, madly busy, but this image, courtesy of John L Moore, will stand, as truth, as a testimonial to my old rifles, and to my vanity that my hair is growing back, if not quite here yet. At least I can go out now without a hat…
Winter tension
My cell phone rang just as I was stepping out the door to fork some hay to the sheep in the -10 degree nip of the morning. It was our local large carnivore biologist calling to give me a heads-up about a pack of wolves roaming just outside our sheep pasture. Apparently state wildlife officials …
Chris, RIP
I wrote the first part to my old cowboy friend Wade’s relatives, so he would know : “Christine Leister, Omar Qureshi’s ’s first wife and very close to both Wade and me, died as peacefully as one can at dawn yesterday, in Cloudcroft I believe, of recurrent malignant melanoma, with her son, her parents, and …
Classic Childrens’ books
… and their lack of modern political corectitude. From Jack, on Honk The Moose, which he was raised on too: “The joys of classic children’s books! “When a Finn gets mad he doesn’t do a halfway job. First he gets madder than a Chinaman; then he works up through the Italians and the French and …
More pigeons
Must be in the air. Anne Pearse Hocker just sent this piece from the Guardian about how they may be better at detecting tumors (visually, from X rays) than humans. Their rate of detection is something like 99%. Actually I am not surprised– much “Dinosaurian” visual acuity exceeds that of us mammals. And Tesla, everyone’s …