March 19th, 2009, No Comments »
Today we drove into Wimberley, Texas for lunch. On the way there, we spotted what appeared to be a freshly killed deer on the side of the road. A group of turkey vultures had begun to have a lunch of their own.
About two hours later we returned on the same road (Wimberley was lovely, incidentally), and I snapped this photo (click for super-sized bird action):
I was surprised that, in the ensuing two hours, they hadn’t made a bigger visible dent in the remains.
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February 12th, 2009, 5 Comments »
When it comes to the outdoors, James is ridiculously capable. A couple of years ago he took me fishing up in Squamish. Well, he went fishing. I floundered around in a freezing river, waving a long graphite stick at the fish who mocked me with their toothy grins. That followed the time we went snorkeling for crabs.
Here’s James’s latest demonstration of woodsy prowess (caution: graphic photos of the inside of a small deer ahead). Boris, Travis and James, among others, discovered a fawn that had frozen to death in Boris’s parents’ backyard on Bowen Island:
In truth, I felt pretty unsure. ‘Doing something’ meant butchering the fawn. I was all for wild game but I didn’t know that everyone at the open house would be as open. And I didn’t have any hunting knives. I had excuses: I had never butchered a deer that wasn’t a fresh kill, I had never butchered a deer, never mind a fawn, in BC, within sight of downtown Vancouver and the birthplace of Greenpeace and all those moral vegetarians.
But, in the end, he went to town and they had a deer feast. I might have even temporarily suspended my no-red-meat habits for a taste of Bowen Island deer.
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May 23rd, 2007, No Comments »
Via Dethroner, I discovered this cool and creepy photo set by Colin Brown from the aftermath of the Griffith Park Fire. This one is particularly weird, depicting a deer skeleton suspending from some tree branches. Commenters on the photo suggest (correctly, I hope) that somebody positioned the skeleton there after the fire.
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