{"id":2282,"date":"2010-04-08T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T18:34:58","slug":"bulls-bikes-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2282","title":{"rendered":"Bulls, Bikes, Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mslima\/status\/11818264377\">retweet<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BibliOdyssey\">@bibliodyssey<\/a>, an addition to the blogroll &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextnature.net\/\">Next Nature<\/a>. I knew I&#8217;d hit paydirt when I saw that the most recent post talked about aurochs and Heck cattle &#8211; a topic we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/144\">visited here<\/a> previously. On (to the blogroll) you go!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com\/\">Ride the Machine<\/a> &#8211; one of my favorite two-wheeler blogs &#8211; s.a. has posted some great Velocette (not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/chris.nightingale1\/films\/acomain.htm\">velocet<\/a> &#8211; or drencrom) cover art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love this one for the aeroplane, the pants (plus-fours? maybe even plus-sixes?) and the mystery of what the heck is going on. Courier? Passenger checking in, as a motorcycle valet rushes in (out of frame)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/gallery-velocette-catalogue-and.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2285  aligncenter\" title=\"vel1\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way the &#8216;L&#8217; and the &#8216;TT&#8221; (Tourist Trophy) are used is wonderful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/gallery-velocette-catalogue-and.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2288   aligncenter\" title=\"vel2\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel2.jpg 550w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vel2-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On a personal note &#8211; I had a wonderful time Tuesday and Wednesday &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorwire.com\/s\/birdology.html\">Noted Nature Writer<\/a> was in town to do a talk\/signing event at a great local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverrunbookstore.com\/\">indie bookstore<\/a>. We had a great time discussing birds and frogs and spiders and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/040620101781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2292 aligncenter\" title=\"04062010178\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/040620101781-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/040620101781-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/040620101781-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/040620101781.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s Sy, waaaay back at the table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a retweet from @bibliodyssey, an addition to the blogroll &#8211; Next Nature. I knew I&#8217;d hit paydirt when I saw that the most recent post talked about aurochs and Heck cattle &#8211; a topic we&#8217;ve visited here previously. 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