Actually not the right collective noun exactly though it appears to have become the “meme”– that word again– the one that you can use to find all kinds of bird “herd mind” videos on YouTube. HT to my old bird hunting friend Jeff Ball in Bozeman…
A Sense of Proportion
Scottie Westfall sent this “meme”: Including two unrelated ones I knew. Just sayin’…
Vulture Fan
From Stacia Novy. Picture this revolving above your hospital bed. I WANT one…
Big Feet
The trail camera Guy Boyd bought me caught these rather alarming images in the Wilson’s yard up Muleshoe south of town last week. Perhaps, if only for the peace of mind of their old Lab Aero, they had best not fill the Raven feeders for a while…
Return from Tanzania
Connie and I returned last night from an amazingly wonderful trip. In the coming days I will put a lot of material up on the blog on some of the experiences we had while there. Like watching these two old bulls devour an acacia tree in the Endumet Wildlife Area. Or seeing this dark-patterned giraffe …
Quote
Via Jim Spencer: “”Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?” (James Joyce)
“Better than Bacon”
This painting, in which Carl Rungius does his own version of a Charley Russell theme, is in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. Most of Rungius’s late great oils have a distinctive theme or style, which I characterized rudely to two of my friends, art historian Jim Moore and museum curator Toby …
Image again
Here is the full image of the painting that contains the detail I blogged on below. I await the book, but as far as I know it is in Chinese, so it may still be enigmatic. It is both beautiful and sinister, and its title is “Clearing the Mountains”. Who is clearing whom out of …
Quote
“No science without fancy. No art without facts” (Vladimir Nabokov, via Carlos Martinez del Rio)
Old Timers
Our annual fiesta seems to have taken on new life, and despite threatening (pre?) monsoon clouds staggering by, nothing is getting cancelled. It SMELLS like O t’s. Now we just need the metronymic rhythm of 4 pm daily storms (with hail!) and maybe this will be the best “real” rain in a decade… Pics, random …