My new children’s book was released by Boyds Mills Press this month. Q readers will recognize the characters of this nonfiction photo essay: Rena the Akbash, Roo the wild burro, and six orphan lambs they raised on our ranch in western Wyoming. It was fun to watch and photograph all three species as they grew …
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Wild East
Here are a few irresistible photos from Lib’s friend Jeff Foott, who we saw in Wyoming and who just returned from our old haunts in Western Mongolia. The third is just nice and speaks for itself. What I love about the other two is the way the Wild East partakes of all technologies from the …
The Owl Man
Unexpected new art, a gift from local sculptor- polymath (and probable cousin of some kind; see below– we share “origin myths”, though have not checked genealogy, and McCabes are rarer than most of my old books), Sigrid “Nina” McCabe, like me a committed incomer. He is cute and even pretty but rather spooky– echoes of …
More shelves plus…
I’m getting feedback in email as well as comments on shelves- I suspect full bookshelves are common in the houses of Q readers, So, a few more, with and without tales. Remember to click for big images… Mostly old or “special” books on the redwood desk:Books n’ bones:Some sporting titles and things…Parts of some of …
Around the House– an Occasional series
I thought I’d post a few photos I keep up in my library, which relate to Q – type subjects- click to “embiggen” as they say in Bloglandia… First, on the bookcase, a few mentors living and dead: Anderson Bakewell, SJ, at the Magdalena shooting range about 1987 (Tom McIntyre’s title: “It’s been HOW long …
A very strange word list
This may only interest writers and other word- mad wretches.. But I recently unearthed a 1940 postcard of the Tokyo Olympiad (?) written on but never sent by Virginia Huntington, Betsy’s mother and the bishop’s wife.We NEVER made any sense of it- creative interpretations encouraged. (She was also a rather awful, but published, poet, if …
My other side
I was asked by email if I knew anything about the history on my Italian side. Not from books is my answer. Bodios (and my grandmother on that side, Sylvia Arzeni) came most recently from Ispra on the east shore of Lake Maggiore a few miles south of the Swiss border; a village called Bodio …
What Can You Say?
h/t Instapundit
A fishy coat of arms
A month or two ago David Zincavage, who is both an old friend and a sort of dog relative (his Uhlan is Ataika’s nephew) emailed me asking if I knew anything about my mother’s family, the McCabes. In fact I did, but mostly family folklore; that though they came to the New World (the Canadian …
Some Cold War Birds
Back in the summer we were up doing some fieldwork on a project in eastern Oregon. We drove past the airport in Ontario several times and I noticed a couple of Cold War-era military jets from the road. Later I got to stop by and saw there was a small collection of these around the …