The late Rio chases a pigeon… (click to enlarge)
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Image, found
Carlos Martinez del Rio’s photo of a “Magpie print”, in new snow in Wyoming…
Images, painted
A new Thomas Quinn (see J P Parker’s perceptive article in Ranch and Riata)… And an old favorite Russell Chatham oil (favorite of both Reid Farmer’s and mine), in the Denver Museum, an almost abstract painting of a favorite place on his grandfather Gottardo Piazzoni’s ranch in Big Sur, titled “No Place for Disdain”:
Links…
Serious stuff, really. Jonathan Katz at Bedlam Farm Journal has been carrying a pretty heavy load by being the point man on the controversy, almost entirely fabricated by those who know nothing about animals, over banning the Central Park carriage horses. (If animals needed psychologists, those horses would be happy; as Freud knew, love and …
Not Even Wrong
“Not even wrong” is a phrase you hear a lot if you hang out with scientists; it came up constantly last week in conversations with Arthur Wilderson and gunblogger- writer Nate Fitch (photo below). I think I first heard it when I hung out at MIT — no, I never studied there, just hung out, …
Quote
“Promoting novels in a soundbite culture is like selling elephants from a gumball machine.” Barbara Kingsolver
A First
Back in November, granddaughter Bella was able to participate in her first horse show, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Griffith Park. Only 4, she has started to learn to ride, but she was in a lead-line class, where her trainer led the horse around the arena. Sure enough, in the best family tradition, …
Wading Bird
One day back before Christmas, I was surprised to see a Red-tailed Hawk land on top of the retaining wall on the north side of the house. Luckily the dogs were in the house so they weren’t out to disturb him (her? knowledgeable people, please opine). He stayed still long enough that I could get …
Local Artist
Libby’s friend Happy Piasso is a Navajo silvermith who is not always traditional. The belt buckle design is based on a Japanese Goshawk portait in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (notice the red coral eye); the ring is built around a silver bat skull.
Firewood
There is something soul- satisfying about getting firewood when you are in the midst of a real winter… Libby supervises Tyler Scartaccini and Tom Rupenacht’s delivery of a good load of what we call “cedar”. It is actually a juniper but locally the common name is reserved for alligator juniper. This is the species with …