I have been kicking a few unrelated (?) things around, having plenty of material but not feeling, with our tough environmental conditions (no water, heat, impending possible rain making it an uncomfortable mix of steamy and dusty) much like writing a long essay. I was rambling freely through these things to L. and suddenly thought: …
Tag: Friends
Tigger’s Pups #1
Courtesy of John Burchard, who bred them, and Daniela Imre, a co- “grandparent” of the human species: the wonderful rainbow litter of Tigger, bred here, and Prince. Multicolor, smooth and feathered, Kazakh & Arab; all progenitors hunters: the ultimate Silk Road US litter! I am tempted by the little brindle girl and the feathered tri(s?), …
Friends & Family, Music & Words, Past & Present
Everything seems to come around again. Last week, Tom Russell and his sideman Thad Beckmann played at Passim, a cellar room in Harvard square where I heard the likes of Ian Tyson as far back as 1966, when it was the legendary Club 47. My sister Karen Graham, here with Tom, her husband George, and …
Gratutous spring dog pix
Alex Schubert’s lovely Minoo tormenting cur Ayla and alone; Vladimir’s Bibigul (Nightingale) and laika Dinah; Tina Garfield’s 10 month old baby Anatolian Gunny, recently returned to Magdalena area after wintering on the Texas coast.
Guadalupe
Tom Russell’s song from “Blood and Candle Smoke”, sung by Gretchen Peters, and Guadalupe herself, painted by Tom. You can see his paintings, including I believe the original of this print, at Rainbow Man gallery in Santa Fe. He began last week’s show with this haunting song. We do have an oddly eclectic “collection”– she …
Ian and Tom
Best concert ever– well, I am inclined to hyperbole– let’s just say the best set of popular music I have ever seen in NM. It could NOT have been any better, and I have seen & heard both (long) before; Ian first in 1967! Tom on stage spoke of one collaboration: “Ian wrote this when …
Of Lane and Jane and dog relatives
Our blog friend and frequent commenter Lane Batot lives an enviable life in the wooded hills of North Carolina, working at the zoo, rambling the wild lands with his team of dogs and his spear, reading and collecting a natural history library that would rival mine. At the moment he has thousands of books, thirteen …
Riss
As some of you know, Larissa is pregnant by Tavi at Shiri’s.
Parker
Leonard Parker, Quanah’s grandson (he was in the photo of the old man’s reburial in 1956, wearing his Army uniform) is back in town on a quick run with his nephew. He managed the BIA dorms for Floyd Mansell, ran the Spur for Steve Grayson, and eventually moved back to Anadarko with his late wife …
VERY Big Puppy
Tina Garfield is spending some of the winter down on the warmer Texas coast with her Anatolian livestock guardian pup Gunny. Look what difference three months makes! He is the small one above…