Just a little photoblogging for today, as I have another deadline. This is Teddy Moritz’s team of Dachshund and Harris, working so well together they barely need a human. Teddy bred our Lil what seems a lifetime ago, and she continues to field her team in places close to civilization on the east coast.
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Kurland
Bruce Kurland may be our best still life painter. After studying many masters, he came ‘home’ to do something so old it is original again… See a little (Francis) Bacon in the last? Winslow Homer in the first? Bruce has a new book: Bruce Kurland: Illusion and the Little World. Check it out on Amazon.
Gorbatov and Seton
The live capture of the wolf in the video below put me in mind of a Vadim Gorbatov project I would love to see published in English. Almost twenty years ago a Korean publisher decided to revive the classic Ernest Thompson Seton tale “Lobo”, about a cattle- killing wolf in northern New Mexico; a story …
Traditional Sport in Kyrgizstan
Sent by Sir Terence Clark: UPDATE: I was struck by the smooth gait of the horses and the comfortable seat of the riders in one sequence. I am no great horseman, so was gratified when old cowhand and world class photographer Jay Dusard wrote: “The most amazing segment in the film was the horses that …
A little more info?
For those who do not follow regularly– a couple of e- mailers wondered about the post below. The shotgun below is a Best quality London- style Birmingham sidelock 12 bore, with a three figure serial number, built by Frederick “Frank” Scott between the end of the Great War and the end of his firm in …
Locks
Whatever the advertising, don’t take any “as good as” statements from modern makers about their equivalence to Golden Age Best guns. Nobody can afford the new ones, but learn quality, and you might find something over a hundred years old that doesn’t cost much at all, especially compared to its imitators… Gerry Cox, visiting from …
Times Change
For some of the work I have been doing with the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, I have recently I have spent a fair amount of time with my nose in issues of historic Colorado newspapers. We do landmark nominations and I sometimes need to look in the old papers to straighten out footnotes and …
Spring, and Shared Range
Spring has arrived to our western Wyoming rangelands. We’ve already had temperatures in the 40s and snowmelt, with the resulting visit from our old friend mud – which we haven’t experienced for the longest time in our decade or so of drought. It’s been a pleasure to have to throw the truck in four-wheel drive …
A little more on covers
I care a lot about covers, and a small selection with very little text might illustrate why. Covers can make every difference in getting a book to jump off the shelf, and I often suspect word- driven editors of slighting the cover’s importance. Specialized knowledge of a cover subject can point to things your editor …
Clarissa Dixon Wright R. I. P.
John Hill, (in the middle above), better known here as “Johnny UK”, sent us a note saying that Clarissa Dixon Wright (right above) had died. The surviving member of the “Two Fat Ladies” cooking duo, champions of real food and best known in this household for the multi- species, multi -organ meat loaf known as …