“… the shot of him crawling down the center line on a remote desert highway (his idea, not mine!) may not send the proper parenting messages. Roads are dangerous, children should be rock climbing instead!” A. Jackson Frishman, on grandson Eli in a review of the year’s photos of the Adventure Kid. Don’t know if …
Tag: Family
Pi Day
Eli, Niki, and Pythagoras celebrate Pi Day at Deep Springs.
Eight feet?
The snow around Boston is now deeper than I ever saw it back when. Karen and her dog on the salt marsh near her house. Her driveway and walk have walls well over her head. The dogs are packing up and roaming, as the fences are under the snow. Perhaps she will send more photos …
Heirloom Photos?
Two “family” photos that hang on our walls are a little better than snapshots. Our friend Jay Dusard took this of me a LONG time ago at Libby’s house in Montana. This, even longer ago, was an outtake for this. That is Libby over near the right with the short black hair and the blonde …
Deep Springs digest
Last week. The roads in and out are ridiculous… The valley bottom is dry… Though the irrigated land is rich. We searched for Bufo exsul at the springs, but it was too cool… Eli is as ever adventure kid. We had fun, especially Libby.
Visual Free Association
David Zincavage sent me this striking image of a Kazakh girl and eagle. The rather formal gold- braided pattern on her coat is common among all the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, from Uzbekistan through Kyrgizstan to the (Kazakh) western “Aimag” of Mongolia. Jack and Niki wore Uzbek versions for their wedding in Santa Fe. …
The wilderness next door
Back in the 1970’s Thomas McGuane was giving an interview and was asked why he lived where he lived, in Montana and (then) Key West. One of his reasons was proximity to wilderness and big predators– “megafauna” to use today’s popular term. He cited grizzlies in Montana and a less obvious choice– great sharks in …
Branding at Deep Springs
Ranching is not just some archaic way of life practiced only by Neanderthal reactionaries, as some urban columnists have recently implied. The unique and innovative Deep Springs College is also a working cattle ranch, and always has been one. In a splendid photo essay, Jack Frishman captures the spring gathering and branding.
Niki climbs
My daughter- in- law married a man, Jack (Andrew Jackson) Frishman, who is himself the result of TWO people with a climbing lineage falling in love. Grandpa Ken Adam was on a T shirt depicting him rappelling from Lower Cathedral Spire in Yosemite in the 40’s *. So it is pretty natural to want to …
Happy Birthday Mary!
Just got up this pic of my mother, taken last week a bit south of Boston where she lives, near most of my family. She turns 89 today, and I think she looks pretty damn good, especially for the mother of nine individual and often difficult children (I am as you might expect the oldest). …