From “Max”:I believe I know that guy (;-); (pic is from 1998 but I have plenty more). He IS cool, and can out- drink me:
Tag: Far Away and Long Ago
The Fragrance of Grass
Guy de la Valdene’s new memoir The Fragrance of Grass (title from a line in a Jim Harrison poem) is out, and it is wonderful, even better than his earlier good books I think. It is an unusual combination of almost Proustian (but rural) memoir and sporting reminiscence, perhaps with echoes of Turgenev’s “notebooks” as …
Redtail & Rabbits
From around the same time as the photo below– maybe 36 years ago (I had the hawk for six years)– our biggest day, my biggest ever.
Just for Fun
A photo taken on top of the hill in Shutesbury Mass, ca 1974, of me with my redtail tiercel Cinnamon (still one of the best gamehawks I ever had and oddly, like one of the more recent best birds, stolen after years with me), and a friend who is holding my intact rather huge albino …