Don’t try this on unfamiliar ground (see comments on Blaze below). But if your hounds are as well conditioned as Riss and Tavi…
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Breakfast Club
Recently– last winter- an odd mix of ranchers, cowboys, artists, medical workers, teachers, and even less classifiable types started having Sunday brunch at Tita Dixon’s brief version of the Bear Mountain Cafe. It was so much fun that when Linda Rael Mansell and Kelly Kent opened a good cafe at the old Magdalena Hotel it …
Random Doggage
Daniela tells us that Blaze is not coursing marmots; he is just diving off a steep slope– an arroyo?– in hot pursuit…
Progress
Rio, or “Guero” (Whitey or Blondie as opposed to Tavo’s little black Gyr MERLIN Negrito) is making progress. Photos by Shiri Hoshen, training by Octavio Cruz… UPDATE: The little guy has brains too! Tavo writes: “Last night Güero flew off after chasing two rabbits. I got him back right after dark. “He flew back to …
Image
Leon Gaspard was a Taos painter of the early 20th century, with an eccentric style that makes him marginally less popular than some of his straightforwardly impressionist colleagues. He was a Russian who traveled in the the Soviet Union in the 20’s. Like his predecessor , the poet and novelist Lermontov (grandfather Scot “Learmont”), his …
Desideratum
I would like to get this, if I can figure out how to afford it, quite difficult– perhaps my last best chance for a Best gun… There’s always a way…
St Giles Cathedral
Guy Boyd was in Edinborough, and captured not only the cathedral but its amazing animal carvings. Says Guy, “… When they’re visiting, I wonder if these folks contemplate their long tradition of partnership with the animals depicted here in contrast to current restrictive laws.”
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The BBC had an interesting write-up on “aircraft boneyards” around the world with lots of emphasis on the USAF facility at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. It’s quite impressive just driving around outside of it. They offer tours and taking one is on my list. Back in my aerospace days I worked at the Mojave Airport where …
Photoblogging: Kurdish Turkey II: Village Life
Hounds, houses, house partridge, sheep, field pigeons… Partridge, called “Keklik” are kept as pets and for calling their wild relatives, which they catch with fine nooses… demonstrated below These “swift” pigeons are bred for show in the west but fly free here. The one on the ground had just evaded a wild Peregrine and was …
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. – Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon