4000 #2
John Carlson, my best man in my FIRST marriage to Libby (we didn’t get divorced in between). Who but a biologist bor in Eastern MT would use his limited baggage allowance to Antarctica to pack a tux to the home colony? Read his blog at Prairie Ice… To the left, Aldo Leopold; center, Frederick “Hammy” …
4000
Not just the blog, but selected life. Enjoy, enigmas, in- jokes, and all… My old school, J d’A (fomerly the Slater and then the Flint mansion… You know, Jeanne d’Arc Academy, with one of these in every room. John Davila at the chickenfights, ’84 “Trouble ahead..” “The Lady in Red THERE”S A CHICKEN!!!!”
A Little About Dan and Jule Mannix, (and Saul Bellow, and Hitch, and Bad Bob, and George Higgins: Post #3,999…)
Dan Mannix was a popular magazine and book writer in the fifties who was a formative influence on many naturalists who grew up then. His most popular if not necessarily best book was A Sporting Chance, which is in my “Book of Books”, about such things as falconry and ferrets and fishing with cormorants, all …
Maynard Dixon Sketch
As Steve mentioned in an earlier post, Connie and I drove to Santa Fe on April 9 to attend (RockStar) Helen Macdonald’s book signing. We arrived mid-afternoon, checked into our hotel and went to the Plaza to kill some time before we went to pick up Steve and Libby and go see Helen. We went …
The call
We were supposed to shear our sheep today, but a combination of rain and snow pushed back our shearing schedule and I had a free afternoon. I drove about 45 minutes south to meet up with an old friend who was making a quick stop on a Utah-to-Alaska roadtrip with her family. I was given …
Helen on tour in Santa Fe
.. as promised. My camera refused to charge, so all photos are Reid’s or Helen’s. The more “formal” ones are Reid’s, at the signing; the others, in the motel room, Helen’s. I am changing meds and screwed up my doses, so had to leave the dinner; the whole crew just came to my room at …
A few Images
Some images to hold you–we are heading up to to Santa Fe to see Pluvialis! (Perhaps better known today in our crowd as RockStar Helen, to her embarrassment..). We’ll be back Sunday. Reid may report on their dinner in Denver later… he and Connie, Anne “Anyushka” Price and Chas and Mary attending… And the countdown …
RIP: Merle Haggard,1937- 2016
We are losing a lot of the great ones…. UPDATE: a great tribute from Wisconsin’s Kirk Hogan, MD, scientist, patent lawyer (!) elk hunter, gourmand, and neo- beat, whose letters often read like poems… Great “Kern River”. My top pick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILGaYsv_bc Didn’t even make the list of Merle’s top 35! A day hasn’t gone …
A Little more poetry…
I want a couple free to use before the fateful 4000! One on his own death by critic Clive James, who has been entertaining us with the subject for several years and three books- really! And a funny one by my old friend Marilyn Taylor in Wisconsin, who used to hire me to run …