Pigeons and Accips, of course… From Ava, who breeds from some of my best stock; first, a pic in defiance of the Islamic “State”, aka the Desert Plague, and its deranged fear of pigeon genitalia: And an even better photo of her with a favorite, a dark blue chequered “New Mexico Rafeno” of my breeding. …
Boone?
Lane Batot and Jim Cornelius seem to think my present blog photo resembles a portrait of Daniel Boone by Audubon. I am complimented, I think… UPDATE: Lane says it is this one by Chester Harding. While it is more complimentary, I think the first resembles me more!
Still Staggering…
A reader below, in comments, worries about my current photo. It is a crop from this one of me with Shiri and hounds: I replied: “It is part of a cheerful photo of me with a dog– may publish. Health? I am 65 with Parkinson’s and rheumatoid srthritis, as healthy with those as I can …
New Discovery Pushes Date of the Oldest Stone Tools Back 700,000 Years
Up until last month, the oldest known hominid-manufactured stone tools dated to approximately 2.6 million years ago and came from a site at Gona, Ethiopia. In April, Science Magazine reported on a conference paper announcing that tools dating to 3.3 million years ago had been discovered at a site near Lomekwi, Kenya. This is a VERY …
Survived
Catherine and Jean Louis Lassez are back in the states, and Catherine is back at Muleshoe Ranch, after being right in the middle of the Himalayan earthquake. Much to be said, much of it serious and some harrowing, but the trip was not without its whimsical moments… UPDATE: English bird and nature writer Conor Jameson, …
Doggage
Taalai and Nhubia CATCH their lures…
McGuane at the Strand
As promised. These have generated a lot of email (personal, off blog, though I would encourage them here) enough that I might start looking for such interviews. I will put some thoughts in reaction below (above?), probably tomorrow… OK, in-stream commentary to friends edited only for a minimum of sense and coherence: “Living in the …
Tom McGuane on writing and reading
The always intelligent McGuane on what made him a writer. “I read like a son- of- a – bitch” was an early statement of his that helped confirm my vocation– in my youth I wrote at best in spasms, but read everything. That includes books he mentions he read but alludes to as as “non- …
Doggage
Micaela’s Lublub from Finland, one of my favorite dogs, reminding us that at 13 she can be elegant as well as comic; the third, used here before, reminds us of the comedy. She did that herself with no human help…
Coming Attractions
Back from almost a week in Boston, where I went to see and hear Tom Russell’s debut of his new Ballad of the West, The Rose of Roscrae; also to see my 90 year- old mother, whose birthday I had missed, my siblings– 4 of out of 8 of them still live there, as well …