Not just for the birds
I ran into a friend the other day who gave me crap for not posting anything for a while. I appreciated it. This used to be my favorite time of the bird season. Not as many people to contend with. Peace and beauty of a remarkably different quality. The "certain slant of light." Snow concentrated …
"Maybe we fear that the work we depend on images to do for us -- the work of immobilizing, and therefore making tolerable -- will be undone if we throw the image back into the flow of time." -- T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death (8) "I think we hide, necessarily, from an understanding of …
This will probably be the final post for a while about Hercules. The town hall meeting called by Hercules Silver Corp last night in Cambridge was, unexpectedly, packed (I took the photo above before everyone had arrived). Hundreds of people showed up for what was, expectedly, a PR presentation by Chris Paul, CEO, and Chris …
Some news about the Hercules Silver project on the Cecil Andrus Wildlife Management Area. First, Hercules is hosting a "town hall meeting" about its project this Wednesday evening (Dec. 13) at 7 p.m. in the Cambridge Exhibit Hall (see photo below). If you've hunted down there, and can make the meeting, it would be a …
I used to be an athlete a long time ago. In the summer of 1989, I watched the Boise Twilight Criterium bicycle race as men rode their bikes at lightning fast speed on laps downtown. I was smitten by the action and excitement. That same month on NBC Sports I watched Greg Lemond win the …