“Stream in the Forest” – Andrey Nikolayevich Shilder, ca.1906 I love the light. Gustaf Fjæstad, Cold Winter Evening Bang on for that cold damp cold we get here. I am cold just looking at it. Funny how I wrote this up and the next day we had those rare rime ice\hoar frost conditions here.
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Bobcat chases squirrel up tree, Wow
Another Interesting Piece
My Collath 14ga finally showed up… perhaps the most exquisite gun I own out of a LOT! James John Babcock Another in 16?
Westley Richards single
Interesting Westley Richards single, Deeley ejectors removed, unusual double lumps. Vintage Guns No bore size mentioned but singles were usually for the larger bores like 8.
EV Scream??
A less obvious example, I was really looking forward to when electric trucks got to the reliability and price points that they’d be a reasonable purchase. That would no doubt take “low impact” everything up a notch. That excitement has vanished, ever since a neighbor bought an electric car. Sure, it’s whisper quiet to me, …
Roy Chapman Andrews update.
Tom Lovell True Magazine Chinese Soldiers Painting I sent Steve this Tom Lovell image in Sept 2023. He replied, “Where do you FIND these things?? I love it.” Lovell was a contemporary to Clymer with a similar career arc. Prior post. Tom Lovell True Magazine June 1949 Last Christmas I posted this and at the time I didn’t know …
Dino Update, Etc.
It’s amazing how far paleontology has come, and these drawings by Nix Illustration demonstrate that progress amazingly well. Lindsey Kinsella – Author A lot of new info to me here. I had no idea of some of these and it makes you wonder if and how they will change further. Steve likely will be …
Xmas Waxwings
If Mother Nature had a Christmas Tree….. It would be this. A tree past its prime. Holding on for a few last breaths. Full of little cones that are full of little seeds that will scatter across the landscape when the time comes. But for now, it will provide a resting post for tired birds …
Extreme Adaptions
Spider tailed horned viper More on the Spider tailed horned viper. Club-winged manakin More on YouTube. A more complete version on Facebook. Modified wing feathers are rubbed over bumps at high speed to produce the sound. The only bird that does so which resembles how insects create mating sounds. If these things were not …
Stillness on Christmas Eve.
Leo Piron – Winter, 1940 Manifest stillness on Christmas Eve. Merry Xmas.