Book is more than half done but not done; cover is. Vadim of course.
Upcoming Trip
Connie and I are leaving later this week on a two-week trip to Tanzania. Our itinerary includes visits to Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Oldupai (used to be Olduvai) Gorge, and Serengeti National Park. We hope to have lots of photographs and stories to share when we return.
Local moths
All but one are member of large groups that are represented everywhere and anywhere, though collected here. That one is not rare, but it is interesting…
Pedersen Rifle
But for the preferences of General MacArthur and a big supply of WWI Springfields, we might have had a more elegant, if complicated, rifle for WWII than the Garand. Nathaniel F, gunblogger, scholar, and expert on military weapons and their history, first showed me a cartridge for the legendary Pedersen when he visited with Arthur …
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Reid found this. Sounds satirical but I assure you I have seen worse in Mongolia, not to mention Kenneth Tynan’s legendary Spanish one he cites in his 50’s bullfight book Bull Fever… (better than Death in the Afternoon- improbably, I have two first eds, one signed, totally by accident…)
Clark City
Russell Chatham is back in northern California, fishing, thinking, writing, getting back to his roots. I don’t have any practical info, yet, but he is reviving Clark City Press, one step at a time . Back in the day, he was the one publisher willing to take Querencia– the- book. Without him, this blog would …
Image query
David W in Texas, an old falconer like me, sent this unsourced image. In it, a slightly stylized eagle appears to be attacking a human, while the nose of a tazi just enters lower left. Anybody out there who can translate the title or tell us anything about it? (Style but not subject of art …
Weekend Doggage
Daniel, with his new Civil War beard, trains one of his astonishingly beautiful pointers, art married to genes… look at that tail!
Stil another quote
From Carlos Martinez del Rio, a man with a serious library, a quote from Giacomo Leopardi, “… a wonderful Italian poet of the early 19th century” : “Works of ‘literary’ genius have the intrinsic quality, that even when they capture exactly the nothingness of things, or vividly reveal and make us feel life’s inevitable unhappiness, …
A Recent Find
Earlier in the month, I volunteered to help the Colorado State University field school when they conducted an excavation at a nearby site here in Douglas County. It’s common for archaeology field schools to take their students to archaeological sites other than the one they are working on to broaden their exposure to other site …