Biggest snow since ’88… And COLD! Last photo by Tina Garfield.
RIP: Pearl the Merle
Nate Moody and Nan Morningstar’s Pearl, the only merle pup from the late Semirichenia tazi from Kiev, brindle Lashyn, and the Hancock bred lurcher Plummer fom England, died of a bladder problem last week. She was our favorite of the litter, by far the most adventurous– she could climb over the dog gate at …
George’s Battle
My brother in law and great friend, George Graham of South Weymouth, Massachusetts, married to my sister Karen, faces the battle of a lifetime. Tomorrow he begins five weeks of targeted radiation and chemo, after that four more for recuperation. Then they cut. Esophageal cancer is a tough one, and it took down Hitch, but …
Darren’s Opinion of Feathered Dinos…
Darren’s opinion on feathered dinos is at LEAST as strong as mine, and better informed– but I didn’t do a T- Shirt. I don’t usually wear one, but I have ordered his, in a kind of dayglo golden orange at that… Darren’s blog(s)– his has had several versions and sponsors– have been what I thought …
More funnies
Needs no verbiage…
When we were young
Who remembers this? ( HT Jonathan) It is an honest-to- God SEARS ad, from the early sixties!
Good essay
Barry Lopez in Granta. The first quote is so often the writer’s dilemma. “As much as I believed I was fully present in the physical worlds I was traveling through, I understood over time that I was not. More often I was only thinking about the place I was in. Initially awed by an event, …
New Bird
VERY nice new female Aplomado which came with brain installed, including her own ideas about where to sit. She is already flying to the T perch I am using with the Harris below. Stay tuned….
One more light one…
This amazing illo of a mammoth apparently walking out of a frozen bank is from a 19th c childrens’ travel book. The text is sensible enough but the ilustration almost made me buy the book..
Playing with Food
Because sometimes it’s fun to play with your food – a coyote in western Wyoming this morning.