Boston and Home at last!

Home from our second trip this month and hoping to stay, write, blog about something with content, hunt, and not travel. Our stay with sister Karen Graham and her husband George exceeded all expectations. We didn’t go out much- rather, we sat and ate and drank and talked and met with friends, some of whom …

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To Boston

… for a week, to stay with sister Karen Graham, frequent commenter, her husband George, and their sons Alec and Evan, and to see my mother Mary (below).They even like guns!Hoping also to meet up with Dr Hypercube and Sy Montgomery (below, in Mongolia) and fish with Captain Rick Rozen (below Sy, in Costa Rica) …

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A Little More Sporting Heritage

I owe my father for, at a minimum, a love of reading, art, and natural history, and for the practice of keeping pigeons. But as regulars know he also passed on a love for sport and a taste for barely affordable expensive shotguns (I have published his 1954 pic with his Winchester Model 21 “Heavy …

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Climbing Heritage

As I mention in her mother’s obit below, Libby was a second generation climber and a guide from the Rockies to the Himalayas. Her husband Harry, who died in a “backyard” fall in the Tetons after a far more frightening climb in China, was a serious one. Harry was father to my stepson, wilderness photo- …

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