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The T Girls in their Youth
From Jutta:
Assertive Hawk
Mima saith: MY T- perch…
Hunter’s Song
Kittinguharmiut Song As I recall once moreThe time I drifted outOn an off-shore windAnd believed I was in danger, I recall again my fears,Those small ones I thought so big,For all the things I hadn’t yetAccomplished in my life. Yet there is only one big thingThat truly matters: to liveTo see the great day that …
Woodpile
Them that knows, knows– the importance of this task, the beauty of it, and the satisfaction when you have split enough to relax…
Wyatt Earp
At home in Los Angeles, 1923. I was really struck by this photograph when I stumbled across it. He would have been 75 and he still looks like he could kick your ass any time he felt like it.
Boyz in the Hood
There were three of them here yesterday morning. I was able to take these pictures from the deck and not alarm them much. They had followed a group of does up the hill (it IS that time of year) and they were on their way back down to the Bayou Gulch bottoms, pausing along the …
Hot Links
A systematic study of stenciled hand prints in European Upper Paleolithic cave art (like in the picture above) indicates that most of them were likely made by women. This comes as a surprise as most have assumed that this rock art was associated with hunting magic and was executed by men. Dale Guthrie call your office. …
The Land Of My Soul
It was a crisp 16 degrees when we set out, the headlights of the truck shining on the black ice coating the roadway, with the soft fog buffering the white glare of the freshly fallen snow blanketing the landscape. It was slow going pulling the empty stock trailer so it wouldn’t fishtail on the slick …
An Heirloom
A couple of years ago, I posted about my mother’s family’s history of manufacturing patent medicine. That post showed a 1930s photograph with a Nash’s Chill & Liver Tonic advertising sign, and I said I had long wanted to find a bottle. I mentioned this in an off-hand remark to my cousin Clifford Toney when I …