From Carlos Martinez del Rio, a man with a serious library, a quote from Giacomo Leopardi, “… a wonderful Italian poet of the early 19th century” : “Works of ‘literary’ genius have the intrinsic quality, that even when they capture exactly the nothingness of things, or vividly reveal and make us feel life’s inevitable unhappiness, …
Tag: I get by with a little help from my friends…
Apache
Paul has his old NM Gos back, a bird who might have been his best. He has descendants, with Finnish genes, and if all goes well I may yet fly one. Accipiter gentilis apache may or may or may not be a valid taxon, but Gila Goshawks are distinctive. First I ever saw was in …
Aardwolf
One more image. An aardwolf, which is of course no wolf at all, by Jonathan Kingdon. Can you read the inscription?
It is Christmas eve
.. and I haven’t gotten to the computer until now. Nor is the time right for anything serious or heavy. Tonight the music on the box ranges from Baroque to Loreena McKinnet to Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, the last performed by the choir at Albany’s Cathedral of all Saints back when Libby’s sister and her …