Guy Boyd was in Edinborough, and captured not only the cathedral but its amazing animal carvings. Says Guy, “… When they’re visiting, I wonder if these folks contemplate their long tradition of partnership with the animals depicted here in contrast to current restrictive laws.”
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Visual Free Association
David Zincavage sent me this striking image of a Kazakh girl and eagle. The rather formal gold- braided pattern on her coat is common among all the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, from Uzbekistan through Kyrgizstan to the (Kazakh) western “Aimag” of Mongolia. Jack and Niki wore Uzbek versions for their wedding in Santa Fe. …
Malcolm
I ma hoping you are all reading Malcolm Brooks’s Painted Horses, at least as much for your pleasure as because he is a friend who deserves it– for why would I be saying such good things about a bad writer? (There is a Russ Chatham story about beautiful women who are not quite as bright …
Roman a Clef?
Two characters from John Moore’s Looking for Lynne reading about themselves:
Another day’s wait …
Before regular traffic begins. A productive day, but at 8:21 PM I am unlikely to blog much after a day spent working and answering correspondence at this desk. I should leave you all with an image or two to hold you from… what? Something surreal? Poignant? Beautiful? Art or artifice or nature? Aahh, I know. …
Old photo #1
Found a hundred or so old photos. Here is Constant Commenter John Hill, better known as “Johnny UK”, on one of his many stays here, riding the Qureshi’s Cebolla north of town.
At Mark’s: Gratuitous weiner dogs plus
I took a lot of photos at my friend Mark’s “new” office in a historic building here– firearms, animal specimens, and gratuitous dogs. Rather than publish them all in one monster post, I think I will parcel them out. Mark is a fan of bird dogs and dachshunds. He has several dachsies, plus Kena who …
Back….
Exhausted, happy, SLOW. I will not attempt to get everything out immediately. Suffice for now to say that the “gathering of the clans” was a success, and that we all had fun. Jim blogged our night at Malcolm’s signing here. More photos: A Central Asian dinner, with Russians metaphorical and real: And art, and …
A little more photoblogging…
From Scott McNeff, to cheer us all by demonstrating how a bird (Sharpshin “Boomer”) and a dog (viszla “Fran”, after Fran Hamerstrom) can bond quite on their own. He writes: “… One day last week, “Boomer” caught a bird on the wing – the dog had steadied up at the flush, and I watched as …
Gratuitous Dog
A little late this week, though I won’t apologize. Taalai makes a turn.