Not just for the birds
Unmerited favor. I've gotten out quite a bit so far this season. The weather's been good. We recently took a trip to what -- in years past -- had been the best place I'd ever hunted chukar, for many reasons. We'd looked forward to it for nearly a year. But for whatever reason the hunting …
"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 …
The two years we lived in Washington, as I've said here before, were not the easiest two years for us. We missed the chukar hills, empathized with our dogs' longings for open hills of bunchgrass and sage, and just simply were unable to ignore the call to the hills. Local surrogates paled in comparison. When …
"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick. So far this season, Bob and I have been only hunting at higher elevations where the earthy golden grasses and light green sage colored hills meet up with the forested mountains. These are places to take advantage …
I got a sick queasy feeling deep in my stomach as we detoured and drove into rural Council, Idaho. The curbside spot right out front of the local veterinary office was the exact spot where we'd parked the bright red Jeep two years before and it was empty and waiting for us. Just like the …