Eli Tripp, one of Jackson’s two closest high school friends and a constant presence in our lives during the Bozeman years, died this week of complications of Cystic Fibrosis. He was 37 and fought himself and his disease to remarkably good health for years. CF is still a killer though. His obit in the Bozeman …
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Andrey’s Photos
Andrey Kovalenko, ornithologist, breeder of our Kyran, and ace photographer, has a new wildlife photo site. He travels all over Central Asia but I bet more of them are from his own Kazakhstan , with its incredibly varied landscape, than anywhere else. Here is an example, plus one of him with Kyran’s father Berkut and …
Commonplace Book
Another good quote: Samuel Johnson from Boswell’s Life: “Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. It is assuming a superiority, and it is particularly wrong to question a man concerning himself. There may be parts of his former life he may not wish to be made known to other persons, or even brought …
Some Evo Books…
A friend of a friend, who was not as I was raised in what I might called the Evolutionary Tradition (but most emphatically in the religious one), wrote something disbelieving of evo orthodoxy. Often such things raise my hackles. But this seemed a golden moment to sway minds rather than be snarky, so I responded …
Real Zoo Short # 8: Fruit Loops
A woman I shall call SP was what we had as a semi- vet before Dr S. She had her moments. Paul remembers: “I recall SP always wore white, I think because she wasn’t a vet but liked to correct people when they called her Dr. P. The main thing I recall was her constant …
Real Zoo #7: Kimba
Kim was an African spot- nosed guenon, a really lovely little monkey and unlike many captive primates quite sane, but she was also a domineering little prima donna; she treated people the way Ataika tends to treat dogs, as lesser beings that were good as servants but who occasionally needed a good bite to keep …
Quote of the Day
(From Jonathan Hanson): The countryside is a soggy sort of place where animals and birds wander about uncooked – Gladys Mitchell
Turkish friends
I’ve always suspected that we shepherds sometimes have too much time to think, and sometimes the result is often reflected in the activities that we undertake with our herds. Here on the western range, herders race their sheep wagons to claim the best camp sites on common grazing range when it opens in early December. …
Cute Puppy
Because nobody can resist and it is all Win: Paul Domski with a Chris Mason galgo pup, photo by Daniela Imre last weekend.
More Antique Images of “Salukis”…
Or whatever you want to call them. This one is French- Algerian from the 19th century. What interests me is that it is a very heavily feathered dog, like a “mountain” Central Asian dog today (“Khalag tazi”?), but from a place where there are only smooth “sloughis” now. There may be reasons for this, all …