Words fail me. Of course if you are not familiar with the works of Edward Gorey this will make no sense at all. HT Odious.
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Opening day
Libby here on our opening day (took the shotgun for doves too but intense dog activity sort of kept them away!) “Yesterday we had a splendid, heavy rain here, which turned the streets into rivers, an then today we went out on our friend Lee’s ranch (100 sections) with the dogs and had our first …
Season Opener
In the absence of cool weather or fall color, two things define the change of seasons in this part of the world: football and dove hunting. The LSU Tigers won their season opener against Mississippi State in at 45-0 rout, which, best of all, occurred on a Thursday and left the long Labor Day weekend …
New Dawg, Part Deux
Travelling duo Dan Gauss & Margaret Fairman own and operate Shot On Sight Photography, a provider of fantastic images of performance sighthounds and regulars on the lure coursing and OFC circuits. Dan and Margaret are obligate, itinerant RV enthusiasts and bone-deep longdog people, pursuing their dreams. You can follow their travels at http://shotonsite.blogspot.com/, where you’ll …
Gigantic Spiderweb
A gigantic spiderweb with millions of spiders covers a huge area in a Texas State Park 50 miles east of Dallas. Awesome! RTWT.
It’s almost time
(Thank God– it has been a long summer!) Photo by Paul Domski. Detail:
Gorbatov
Al Gates has a new gallery of vadim Gorbatov with old photos and links.
New Acquisition
This is a Hano Mana kachina doll. I posted a while back on some Zuni kachina rock art and the role that kachinas play in Pueblo religion. The place where I bought this had it misidentified, but the artist’s inscription on the base that identified him as Hopi-Tewa helped me figure it out with a …
Brave New World
This you tube video is.. I don’t know if astounding or terrifying is more appropriate. I am thinking about the plain of Eastern Montana above the Missouri Breaks or the hills of Kazakhstan- far northeast Kazakhstan, not wired Almaty. it is all going too fast for me. HT Christina Nealson.
Vicki Hearne
Her new Collected Poems will soon be available. I look forward to reading (and reviewing) them. Was there ever another first- rate poet who also trained animals professionally, had a degree in philosophy (she was at Yale with Howard Bloom) and whose writings still hearten us in our fight against such as PETA? HT Margory …