I saw a half-dozen bucks browsing out behind the garage early Sunday morning. All of them still had their antlers in velvet. Though I had left the dogs inside and tried to walk slowly and calmly, these fellows didn’t want to have anything to do with me. I was looking through my photo records, and …
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Archaeologist Lynn Gamble of the University of California – Santa Barbara has found traces of the historic Chumash village named Syuxtun located in what is now downtown Santa Barbara. That’s a picture of Lynn holding a whale vertebra recovered from the site. I was just looking up Syuxtun in the Handbook of North American Indians, …
Important Reminder
… for anyone who breeds dogs or cares about the Old Ways: please write to oppose the new federal APHIS regs! Jess sums it up well: “The comment period is to let APHIS know that there are problems with this new rule. It should be abandoned completely. Tell them. Do you plan to purchase a …
Pigeon Pix and Apt Descriptions
I realize that not many readers are pigeon fanciers but I have been since I was eight, and pigeons are an integral part of life at Casa Q. Those who find them a bit low- class– I once reviewed a book for the TLS which was generally good, but which remarked that pigeons were unattractive, …
Photos 2– Weather Here & Elsewhere
It is NOT hot here and rarely is, something I despair of making those who equate New Mexico with Arizona understand (NM is one of the highest states in the Union). Greg, Our friend and Lib’s boss at the PO, had to visit his father in Texas and sent us this pic with the label …
Weekend Photoblogging
Anticipating Boletus soon (AKA Cepes, Porcini); the monsoons have returned as has cool weather in the mountains. Lib a few years ago with a choice specimen.
New range
We got the sheep herd moved to new range today. We’re in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains, and this private pasture is about seven miles from where a black wolf was seen in another sheep herd the day before. Federal control efforts on this pack of sheep-killing wolves continues. Wolves in Wyoming are …
Another Gratuitous Riss Pic
From Shiri: being silly and puppyish…
Travelers’ trails…
… sometimes cross. Lauren has been studying and adventuring in Kazakhstan, and sends photos both silly and sublime. Humor first- I’ll let her narrate: ” I went through an ordeal to try and get this well pump to work in the deep desert. It was so hot, I ended up wearing a shawl, the thinnest …
Priorities
Reacting to Kathy’s good comment below, I thought I would post some pix of Casa Q, to remind readers that while we live well we do NOT live in a palace… Recently half of the dying cottonwood in the yard cracked and fell into it, luckily missing the hawk house. Omar, neighbor, bird hunting partner, …