Posted by admin on May 3, 2013 in
Birds,
Musings,
Photography,
Travel It seems like whenever I think it may be time to move on from Idaho and experience some other part of the world that moment of indecision coincides with a trip to the one-hundred-five-year-old Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding environs in southeastern Oregon. The country there is a mix of high sage and bitterbrush [...]
Tags: Alvord Desert, birds, Blitzen River, branding, buckaroos, Buena Vista Ponds, calves, Central Patrol Road, Diamond, Diamond Loop, French Glen, Harney County, horses, lassos, Malheur, mountain bluebirds, mustangs, P Ranch, Pete French Round Barn, ruddy ducks, sandhill cranes, Steens Mountain, The Narrows
Posted by admin on May 25, 2012 in
Musings,
Travel Several weeks ago, Betty and I camped in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge enjoying the buoyant high desert weather and all the bounty of life that accrues to two wet years in succession. Malheur is a moniker for many things in southeastern Oregon; a county, a river, a region. Not too far from Boise, we go [...]
Tags: beaver, birds, black bear, Boise, coyotes, cranes, deer, Donner und Blitzen River, horses, jack rabbit, James Ridge, Malheur, mule deer, Oregon, predator, prey, Robert Moser, Sacramento Mountains, Spud Patch
Posted by admin on February 10, 2012 in
Elko,
Musings,
Travel The halfway point of winter in the northern hemisphere has arrived here in Idaho with dry and warm weather. Trapped in some kind of drought, I suppose I should be saying stuff like, “We need snow in the mountains, we need rain on the flats,” or maybe I should be circling around dancing with my [...]
Tags: Arizona, Elko, Henry Real Bird, horses, Nevada, New Mexico, Paul Zarzyski, Ruby Mountains, snow, tamales, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Wallace McRae, Wild Horse Crossing
Posted by admin on January 13, 2012 in
Musings Recently Betty and I journeyed to the Southwest to show our film and visit family members who live there. On the way back to Idaho, we visited a few places that we had not seen for many years as well as a few places that were on our wish list. One of the destinations was [...]
Tags: Arizona, Canyon de Chelly, cattle, Chinle, Chinle Creek, cottonwood, First Ruin, Hopi, horses, ice, Idaho, Navajo Nation, petroglyphs, pictographs, quick sand, rock art, Ute, White House Ruin, winter
Posted by admin on October 14, 2011 in
Movies When I was a kid in southern Arizona, I went caving and spelunking with a guy who was a middle school teacher in the town where I lived, Casa Grande, Arizona. We walked into basalt cave mouths in the Silver Bells and Silver Reef Mountains, and into our own little Sawtooths. We sniffed around for [...]
Tags: Arizona, basalt, bison, Casa Grande, cave bears, cave lions, cave paintings, Chauvet, film, France, Germany, horses, Lascaux, mine shafts, movies, Neandethal man, Paleolithic man, rattlesnakes, T. S. Eliot, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, University of Tubingen, Werner Herzog, wooly rhinos
Posted by admin on August 26, 2011 in
Books I cleaned my office this last weekend and as I straightened the bookshelves, J Edward Chamberlain’s, Horse (Blue Ridge, New York, NY), fell on the floor. Horse is a narrative that laymen can read about how mankind and the horse have developed a somewhat unique, symbiotic relationship. As I hefted the book, an image of [...]
Tags: Arizona, betting, Casa Grande, Cloudcroft, cowboys, gambling, horse races, horses, hostler, jockeys, Los Conquistadores, New Mexico, pin ball machines, Prescott, quarter horses, Ruidoso, Sierra Blanca, Vietnam
