Monthly Archives: May 2011
FREE RANGE: FOOD, NATURE, PLACE, AND MORE
A school of fish: Izaak Walton at Madroño Ranch
… doubt not, therefore, sir, that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? Inspired by the recent Freshwater Fly-Fishing School at Madroño Ranch, I’ve been rereading … Continue reading
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Tagged Dai Due, fishing, Henry David Thoreau, Izaak Walton, Jesse Griffiths, Morgan Angelone, Thomas McGuane, Tink Pinkard
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Gratuitous beauty
Our friend John Burnett recently returned from a trip to Japan, one of a handful of places he’d never been in a long career as a reporter for NPR. As a specialist in the American Southwest and Latin America, he … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Leopold, beauty, birds, David Brooks, Japan, National Public Radio, recapitulation theory
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Down home and out of place: East Side blues
As regular readers of this blog know, we believe firmly in the pleasures—and, even more, the importance—of cultivating the kind of deep knowledge of people and landmarks and events, present and past, that only comes with long residence in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Antone's, Austin, blues, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Little Elmore Reed Blues Band, maps, sense of place, TC's Lounge, Texas music
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Learning to listen, and love
I have a new role model: Steve Nelle, a wildlife biologist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an arm of the USDA, in San Angelo. Martin and Madroño Ranch’s redoubtable manager Robert and I went to hear him speak about … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, cedar, Charles Darwin, compassion, earthworms, H. L. Mencken, Karen Armstrong, Texas Hill Country
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