First there were my old friend John Davila, Catron County rancher, world traveler, jack of all trades… in the old days and today. and his then wife Becky… They were among the first friends I made in New Mexico. They are in Querencia- the- book in several places, and came up to Albuuquerque to comfort …
Tag: Friends
Hares (and coyotes) beware
Lauren is coming…
Gratuitous Hound Pix
From Jutta in Germany and Shiri just up the road
The Unfeathered Bird: or, why I was in Laramie
Carlos Martinez del Rio, “cyborg naturalist”, polymath, bibliophile, horseman, game cook, teacher, and doubtless a host of other things I don’t know about yet, is director of the Berry Center Biodiversity Institute at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. In that position, supervising an ever- expanding net woven between science, art, and nature, he decided …
“Cyborg Naturalists”
Two Wyoming friends who I spent time with last week, Carlos Martinez del Rio and Jeff Lockwood, discuss a new concept of the naturalist. Among other things, I envy Carlos’s library!
The T Girls in their Youth
From Jutta:
Fangio’s day drive and other cars…
Juan Fangio was a great driver who dominated Formula One racing in the fifties and later, along with the likes of Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart. I am one of an aging remnant of mostly males (though another local friend and member of our band, Brian Romkey, reminded me of Denise McLuggage and Jean Lindamood, …
Guest Quotes– Teddy Moritz
Teddy writes: “Just finished a book by Christine Byl titled ‘Dirt Work, An Education in the Woods’. This woman worked summers on trail maintenance in Glacier National Park, and in several parks in Alaska. She talks about the grunt work, the digging and clearing and loading and discomfort of physical work. She loved it all. …
Music Lessons
Q loves rock and country, but Libby and I were brought up on classical and love it too. Both she and Jackson can play well; to my eternal regret I never learned. We liked this essay in defense of obligatory lessons for the young, written in response to one against the idea. “I do think …
Speaking of pretty guns…
Andrew, using my former Grant, has a great day in the field. “It’s taken dumber birds already, but the Grant got its first wild birds today — and in style, limiting out on sharptail on our first day out. “It was a rough day with winds gusting well over 20mph. Despite being on private land …