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 …
Tag: Random Weirdness
Separated at Birth?
The Magdalena Owlman by Nina McCabe, and Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest…
Another Magdalena Tale
From John Wilson: “We got out to B. W. Cox’s sawmill. I had a chance to chat with Mr. Cox (he did not like being called Mr. Cox). What an interesting guy. “The two guys working the mill were filled with interesting information as well. Guillermo has been around here for over thirty years. Javier …
Refrigerator art
Do you put things, other than kid’s photos, on your refrigerator? We have, and over the years I find they actually portray our life in cartoons and found objects. The book and car ones are almost painfully on- target. A selection below; as always, right or double click to enlarge and read…
Curmudgeonly Quotes and Related Matters
A :Dave Petzal, Field & Stream’s resident curmudgeon (and the main if not only reason to read that mag any more) was asked why he had such a bad attitude. He responded: “Because I have had the opportunity to observe human beings for seven decades, and if you do it for that long and don’t …
Goshawks in Love
Courtesy of Pecular. Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a link to a bigger version of the photograph, and here is one to the photographer, photoblogger Juanma Hernandez: Gos photos and more, including the first action scenes I have ever seen of a wryneck…
Kansas City
I had come to KC to participate in a study of Parkinson’s based on analysis of people who had a certain genetic marker that predisposed them toward it– not sufficient in itself but perhaps necessary. KC was the nearest of the three cities to us, it was on the sleeper train, we had a good …
Eagle Woman
Image from Scott Elliot, Darne guy, veteran, PI– and no, we don’t know where it is from, though there is a faint air of Almaty fashion (use search bar) and Kazakh rock, as well as Asian hunting……
Feedback?
It has been suggested I grow a beard because of slowness & difficulty shaving. Hmmm– I do not like it coming in, I do not recognize myself in the mirror; Canat in Mongolia though grinning said of this photo that I looked like a “big EEvan” (Ivan, ie a Russian), and though he grinned I …
And Now for Something Completely Different…
Steampunk Bugatti? Blastolene: