I’m between book projects at the moment – something that only happens for a short time every few years. My next children’s book has been sent to the printer, and my next adult book is making its way through the review process of an academic press under the guidance of an acquisitions editor who is …
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Seattle turf war
Jim and I had the pleasure of spending last weekend in Seattle, visiting our grandgirls and nephew. While exploring Pike’s Place Market, we heard a ruckus above. A crow and gull were having a horrendous dispute, and I enjoyed spending a few minutes watching the crow dive-bombing the stubborn gull.
Belated Answer
Too busy! But re “digs him up again” in Mesabi below: the ref is from Ezra Pound in his pre- Modernist period; from “Sestina: Altaforte”, his sketch of the warrior troubador Bertrans de Born. He prefaces the poem: “Dante Alghieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife. “Eccovi! …
PLF 2: Letters from Geoffrey Household
Sadly, I never corresponded with Patrick Leigh Fermor, but I did for many years with the adventurous old “suspense” story writer Geoffrey Household (as so many perceptive critics wrote, he was so much more than that, including a naturalist, a regionalist, and a chronicler of the same old lost Europe that Leigh Fermor also celebrated). …
Patrick Leigh Fermor 1915- 2011 RIP
Too burnt on obit- writing to write a proper tribute to one of my (and Betsy Huntington’s; she left me all my early first editions; and Q’s) favorite writers and examples of a life well- lived. But readers and nomads everywhere should observe a silent moment: Patrick Leigh Fermor has died at 96 in England. …
A Little Comic Relief
The Bodio side of the Frishman heritage, in part: guns & animals. I think several blogs attest there is a literary component as well…
Readings
On a hot dusty day, we buried Patty Adam in Fairview Cemetery on Cerrillos road in Santa Fe, with a small crowd of friends in attendance. The cemetery, on the National Historic Register, is odd, small, old, and dry, with 19th century tombstones and a general air of benign neglect– think New Orleans with prairie …
Climbing Heritage
As I mention in her mother’s obit below, Libby was a second generation climber and a guide from the Rockies to the Himalayas. Her husband Harry, who died in a “backyard” fall in the Tetons after a far more frightening climb in China, was a serious one. Harry was father to my stepson, wilderness photo- …
Avian Drama, Home Version
In remote, dirt- road Magdalena, wildlife comes into town. Deer track through the central arroyo, followed by mountain lions. An adolescent lion got himself cornered and darted in the High school yard a couple of years ago; a bear went up an electric pole and was electrocuted the same year. Coyotes challenge the hounds from …
Gun Butts
Not art photography but: the Ithaca NID 16 gauge, my “Elmer Keith” gun, is back with an authentic 30’s- era Art Deco “Rising Sun” butt pad- wouldn’t have one without it. And the perfect little 20 is also back from Beretta in NY courtesy of Andrew Campbell, with a leather- covered pad that makes it …