Our own youngsters are growing too fast to keep up with– in photos anyway. Both have grown in the last week.
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What is it?
This lovely young dog came to visit this past weekend. What breed is she? Those who already know– Brett, Chris, Daniela et al, please refrain from giving it away!. I’ll answer soon. (Photos by Daniela Imre)
“Eagle Warrior”
And while we are on weird images, Sari Mantila sends this from Finland, with that title. Actually it is an un- retouched photo of a Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus). But doesn’t it look like some weird ape- raptor conflation?
Raptor art?
Zac Eads sends this from autoblog.com. It isn’t a shield for a tsuba- it’s a manhole cover. With a Goshawk. Only the Japanese…
Disgrace
In Boston, the Franklin Park Zoo may close. As many as 165 employees may lose their jobs, and a large percentage of the animals may be euthanized. “These are extremely difficult times across the state, and there have been tough cuts in every area,” a [Governor Deval] Patrick spokeswoman, Cyndi Roy, said in a statement. …
How to write
This whole thing is so funny and true I can hardly excerpt. But I’ll try: “Find that single cartoon frame from “Peanuts” that you keep in a box somewhere, the one in which Snoopy is reading a publisher’s rejection letter for his novel that goes, “Has it ever occurred to you that you may be …
Big Ag Blues
I might be less skeptical about the Obama Rhetoric below were it not for developments in the real world. This article from the San Francisco Chronicle may be the most horrifying yet: despite the so- called “Green” attitudes of California voters, apparently perceptions of what is “sanitary” trumps all sense of what is good for …
Dog/sheep days of summer
It’s 65 degrees this mid-morning, and the herd at the house has been complaining about the heat and mosquitoes. Here are old ewe, Friendly, with some of the orphan lambs, and Rant the Aziat, all trying to enjoy the shade.
Things to smile about
After depressing myself with yesterday’s post about eagles, I decided I’d better share some better news. Remember the seven pronghorn antelope fawns I photographed a few weeks ago? They are really growing. Here are five babies from the same meadow, taken earlier this week. That same morning, I saw this cottontail at a gravel pit …
Such an unnecessary loss
Press accounts tell us this week that PacifiCorp, which does business locally as Rocky Mountain Power, has agreed to cough up $10 million for the killing of golden eagles in Wyoming through electrocution. Although the federal court case against the company was for 34 violations of the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, according to the …