Saturday, November 28, 2020

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words -- November 28, 2020



As far as I know, the law of gravity is still in force in North Dakota. It looks like if the DAPL has to be shut down, several other pipelines face the same fate. 

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The Bird Page

Some years ago -- in 2018, to be exact -- I bought a curious biography of Alexander Wilson, the father of American ornithology:

  • The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter, c. 1983, hardcover, $25, Portland, OR. 

I've read it twice, trying to get a feeling for the ornithologist. Tonight, while reading Bolen and Flores' The Mississippi Kite I came across Alexander Wilson again. From page 23:

The first Mississippi Kite [that Alexander] Wilson shot became immortalized not only because of its dramatic portrait -- often considered one of the best paintings in American Ornithology [a nine-volume series authored by Alexander Wilson] -- but also because of Wilson's account of the experience. 

One can see the Wilson painting at this link. It's hard to believe but it appears the original is available for $800.

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Today's Personality: Susanna Clark

At wiki

Todd Snider mentioned her in passing on his two-hour extemporaneous "celebration of a life" the very night it was announced that Jerry Jeff Walker had passed away.

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