Thursday, July 23, 2009

Tan Lines XIII


Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Hares of the Americas


In North America rabbits are known as cottontails but the hare, confusingly, is called a jackrabbit.

Ten species of hares can be found throughout the Americas – the Black-tailed jackrabbit, the Antelope jackrabbit, the Black jackrabbit, the Sage hare, the White-sided jackrabbit (or Mexican hare), the Tehuantepec jackrabbit, the White-tailed jackrabbit, the Snowshoe hare (or Varing hare), the Alaskan or Tundra hare, and the Arctic hare.


Image 1: Black-tailed jackrabbit.
Image 2: Snowshoe hare.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Morning Light XXIII


Image: Bryan Feiss (photograper unknown).

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Tragedy and Retribution


In England, perhaps because it is so rare a sight, a white hare used to be the object of a particular fear, an embodiment of tragedy and retribution. Girls who died forsaken by their lovers were said to return in the form of white hares. Only the faithless lover would, in most of these stories, be able to see the hare. In all, it follows him everywhere, sometimes saving him from danger, but invariably causing his death in the end.

– George Ewart Evans and David Thomson
The Leaping Hare
p. 164


Image: Cathy.

Thursday, July 2, 2009