and their denizens. Federico Calbolli sent me this video of a hunting fisher in Canada. It is a great hunting scene– watch how she overcomes the hare -pure speed and focused audacity! Here is the video, and text: They are splendid but slightly scary creatures. Long ago I lived in western Mass, in a drafty …
Tag: nostalgia
Meanwhile, at sea…
Brother- in- law George Graham has been getting more and more involved in observing, counting, and studying marine birds and fish off the coast of Massachusetts, so far as a volunteer. He sent this report and these excellent photos, as migration stretces its lines down the coasts. My only caveat is that George will have …
Another Letter
Stuff keeps falling out as I reread old books. Angus Cameron, author of the LL Bean Game & Fish Cookbook and Jack O’Connor’s editor at (ahem) Knopf, sent me a copy of this exchange over The New Yorker review of O’Connor’s… The Rifle Book! Click to enlarge:Jack also got an obit in the NYT. It …
Some “Country” Music Videos: Nostalgia and Chills…
Not all “country” music is unsophisticated or even American. Here I give you a bunch of stuff I have been working through and following. Let us start with Tom Russell’s classic “US Steel”— a straight- up traditional country lament complete with sweet pedal steel, but set in Pennsylvania rather than on the border or even …
Why I miss New England in the fall…
Ruffed grouse and woodcock, in the oven as well as in the field, or rather woods. We have no substitute for the second west of the Mississippi… Photo by Tim Gallagher, on opening day– really near Ithaca NY but I bet it smells and feels the same…
A Car
Mary Anne Rose, who is responsible for my dictation software (and who is a doc and who has and loves deerhounds) also likes old cars. She sent me a photo of herself in a Morris Minor station wagon she is trying to get California legal– bet that is no fun at all! I was amazed …