Since Mima went nuclear on Lashyn, I have been in a quandary re “what bird?” Though there are some exotic possibilities, my perennial favorites have always been gosses and tiercel falcons with gyr and saker genes. I worry about keeping up with the falcons, nor can I afford or easily control a horse, though I …
Tag: Friends
Silk Purse?
Unfair– of all the 20th century military bolt action rifles I like the SMLE best, and there is nothing wrong with the .303 British round either– like the 7 mm Mauser and the 6.5 Mannlicher Schoenauer, it punches above its weight, and has taken virtually every big game animal on the planet. But nobody ever …
Model
A scientifically grounded anatomical artist must be innovative and intrepid. Katrina van Grouw’s model for the pouter pigeon in her ten- star Unfeathered Bird and the finished drawing.
Three gurus and three guns: a silly photo post
I haven’t gone far. I have gotten several notes from friends who seem to think I am in some kind of death spiral. Not at all– just trying to get some work done under physiological conditions that make it difficult. I will post more pics and short stuff — and keep trying to master new …
Can’t quit!
I will bribe somebody to drag me away from this computer soon, but a few things like this last (?) bunch of Laramie photos by Malcolm Brooks (click to embiggen) keep coming in. Artist Katrina van Grouw of The Unfeathered Bird, and me, in Laramie bar Carlos’s incredible library– I am holding a Spanish first …
Still one more for game…
Eileen Clarke’s new book, Sausage Season, is the best on sausage making I have ever read, and I want to get out a review early enough that you can use it (or give it for Christmas). I have tried my hand making cased sausages, and so have friends in town. Almost always, the results are …
Almaty Pigeons
Most readers will know that I love pigeons; some may know I am particularly interested in where domestic species come from, with emphasis on dogs and pigeons. The most pigeon – mad country I know is Turkey, which could be seen as a major source for western breeds. But the Turks say their breeds came …
Then and Now
Nothing makes you feel old as finding a photo from, oh, twenty years ago that resembles a recent one. The first pic fell out of a box a few weeks ago, and shows me and Annie P in our first year of teaching writing at the Wildbranch workshop at Sterling College in Vermont ; the …
Penelope
Penelope Caldwell is an artist with a striking visual style She paints larger- than- life portraits with mythological, sometimes erotic elements (not all the images on her site are “safe” for work!) In our room when we stayed with her and her husband Jim, the Old Gunkie , was this painting, towering over us. We …
Brave Friends and “Progressive” Diseases
As some know, it makes me irrritable when I hear degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s described as “progessive”– only for the disease, as my friend Emily says. Yet progress still does happen. My friend Dutch Salmon has had our mutual condition for about two years longer than I have, and he has had a hard time …