In response to Reid’s below. These (taken from my front door) are out of Blood Meridian.
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Bird Changes
For a while there we had around 20 hummingbirds a day coming to our feeders. Tweaking the formula for nectar appears to have have a real effect. It seems though that the rufous and calliope hummingbirds have left for Mexico and we just have a few broad-tailed hanging around. I have been finding that it …
Red Rubber Ball
Late last week we had a lot of smoke haze here that the USWS said was coming from fires in Utah and Idaho. It certainly made my eyes sting, but we did get a bonus with one of these apochalyptic-looking sunsets.
More images; Tazis east of Turkey
If (as I think) “Tazi” and “Saluki” are linguistic rather than biological distinctions, reflected where Arabic turns to the Turkic and Persian tongues, the title is redundant. The pics are not, and even clinal change admits some differences. Iranian tazi, stolen weeks ago, returned to its horse archer partner this week, a friend of a …
Images, various
I am even more pressed than usual. Though I will try to get some content up in the next two days, time is tight; in addition to my needing to rework my current two book proposals once more at the request of publishers– don’t ask!– we leave Wednesday for our first visit to Deep Springs, …
Rejection
HT Anne Pearse Hocker:
Guns: Keepers and Projects
In any realistic sense I have “enough” guns but I like to keep things rolling, preferably without spending any (or at least any significant) money, in order to keep my brain stimulated. Besides I like looking at them, just like my art and even the spines of my books– seeing them in the rack is …
Paleontogy Joke
From Jonathan Hanson…
Great Rissa pic plus T pups
Showing a “pacing” gait– by Shiri. Three of her cousins are still available at John Burchard’s in the Central Valley town of Alpaugh. They are about four months old; their mother, of our breeding, is brindle Tigger, from Lashyn and Almaty Kyran; their dad tanpoint Prince of serious Arab hunting background. Get in touch with …
A Little Picture Blogging…
I avoid clipping or least posting photos and art when not being blog- productive, but that doesn’t mean good things cease to arrive. Anastasia Ealy sent this symbolic painting of Central Asia’s ancient trio of non- human partners, one with roots in the Deep Past all the way from nearly Manchuria west to Europe and …