Culture, Books, Art

Nifty imagery, Southern summers, tarpon, carp and more. Well done.

She Who Must Be Obeyed and I were feeling sorta glum earlier this week as we climbed back into her trusty Subaru and headed westward to Washington, cheered only a bit by the next morning’s scheduled meeting (with someone no one would believe if I reported it honestly, so I won’t). Somewhere along western Montana’s […]

Yesterday was one of those days that started off just a bit off kilter. You know that sort of day where it feels like you’re a step and a half behind. And no matter what you do, it’s all but impossible to catch up (or even fool yourself into thinking you’re caught up). I just […]

Congrats to Jose and the Flymage gang on their 2nd anniversary issue. Enjoy it here…

Though a plethora of news venues recently reported the findings of a John Moores University (Liverpool) study suggesting that dinosaurs’ flatulence and eructations (aka belches) were significant and measurable contributors to ancient global warming, I first ran across the story on the NY Daily News site. From their article – …A new study suggests that […]

Hat tip Pete McDonald

My grandfather’s beach house on the Texas coast (now long gone) used to be three ‘camp houses’ down from the local shrimper – Little Bob. He’d come chugging down the Colorado River after dragging East Matagorda Bay and we’d race him down the shell road to his dock to watch him unload. It’s a tough […]

Several days ago She Who Must Be Obeyed and I ran up to Seattle to catch Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, take in the sights and act basically act like a pair of country bumpkins on their go-to-town day. There’s been a whisper now and again in the fly fishing world about the show and […]

She Who Must Be Obeyed and I just just rolled back in from a delightful day in Seattle. While we much prefer to live in the boonies, now and again we (at least one of us) notes a drawback, typically under the heading of arts and culture. (At least from my humble point of view […]

Been seeing these all over town and my phone pics were lousy so here’s a nice, shiny one….