Jutta’s girls Taalai and Nhubia of course…
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Useful phrase
From the great Victorian explorer and translator Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: “Lying like a publisher.”
Generic?
Constant commenter Lucas Machais wondered if the cover photo on the new ed of Querencia– the- book, seen below with my other new covers, was “generic”. I am afraid I got more indignant than I should have. We pay attention to the particular here, not the general. I answered that the cover photo “… …
Customs
If you don’t want your overseas package to look like this when you receive it… You probably shouldn’t order bootjacks that look like this all the way from France! Photos courtesy of Gil Stacy.
Quote
From the Cornell Gun Catalog Reprint site: “”A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again…”
Covers
Covers for four of my reprints, all good so far… the last, the new Eagle Dreams with Cat Urbigkit’s cover of my late friend Aralbai, and intro, the observations of a Wyoming cowgirl and stockwoman (and writer) fifteen years or so after me, has been out only a couple of weeks. Now if I could …
Truth
From Jack:
Friday Doggage
Shiri’s new Meshi, at rest and in motion…
Hare vs Hound…
Tim Gallagher asked if I had ever seen an image of a hare chasing a hound, as in this portrait in stone from a Roman fort in England. Well, I hadn’t, but Herb Wells has…
Springtime in Colorado
We woke up to this this morning. Forecasts saw we could get another six inches in the next 24 hours.