It has been a year since I lost another very special friend. His AKC name was Spirit of Bear. He had chosen the kids and me eleven years ago. Then he was a six week old puppy, just a black bundle of love and puff ball of fur with a huge mottled pink tongue. He […] Read more »
I have just returned to Montana from a several week jaunt between my home on the Wyoming Ranches and our spreads in Colorado. I am eagerly looking forward to our annual “Christmas tree undertaking”. I do not recall exactly when this family tradition originated up on the Montana Ranch, but it has become one that […] Read more »
Or is that coming up? Or both? I am going to take another little break in our series presentations to afford you a preview you of the pending rapid evolution of this site. The first series of rainbow pictures from the photo gallery will indeed be available for sale in the very near future (finally!). […] Read more »
Rhett and I spent our last day chasing a big black bear sow with three cubs. Pictures galore and great practice stalking in patchy bogs interspersed with heavy brush and timber. We first spotted her two miles out. We plotted together for a minute, then set a double time intercept course through the undergrowth and […] Read more »
We had one more day of unusually warm weather for late fall in the far north. Rhett stalked and took a fine caribou with glowing dark velvet and an atypical drop tine. He was delighted. I fondly remember Rhett’s hand on my shoulder one night as he roused me from a sound sleep. He and […] Read more »