Tan Lines XXV

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Dancing Hare

Paul Christiano as Strephon in the first of the Ritual Dances
in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage.

Morning Light XXXV

Images: Subject and photographer unknown.

Hare Care

Like all wild creatures, it is important for a hare to keep itself clean and they are always grooming. This puts them at risk of ingesting chemicals sprayed on the land, especially because they like to keep their feet clean after being balled up with mud. The risk of chemical poisoning to hares has decreased, as pesticides are used more sparingly and are a lot safer, but paraquat is still often sprayed on stubble after the harvest to kill off any growth, and this can be harmful to hares.

- Jill Mason
The Hare
p. 53

Morning Light XXXIV

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Eyes of the Hare

Brown hares have large golden-coloured eyes set on the side of their heads, providing them with almost 360 degree vision. Directly ahead of them is where they can see least. They have been known to kill themselves by running into an object or even each other because they have obviously been looking backwards at whatever was behind them rather than forward. This all-round vision means that from their hiding place they can view everything about them. It is a fallacy that hares never close their eyes. They shut them when they are fighting to avoid injury and also when they are dozing. In common with many other animals that are the prey rather than the hunter, they do not go into a deep sleep. They probably merely relax and nap.

- Jill Mason
The Hare
pp. 49-50

Tan Lines XXIV

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

In the Light of the Moon

The hare is nocturnal and spends most of its day in a shallow form on the ground; and unless someone approaches very closely it will not move away from its resting place. Apart from the certain times of year, in the spring mating season or during the corn-harvest when hares are disturbed, there are few to be seen about the countryside. But you will frequently see them out at dusk or in the light of the moon, moving and feeding in the fields. If they have lain in the open or in the woods or reeds of a marsh for the best part of the day, they will come out into the open at night to feed and disport themselves.

- George Ewart Evans and David Thomson
The Leaping Hare
p. 112

Morning Light XXXIII

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Creatures of Habit

Hares are creatures of habit and use the same tracks and gaps in hedges, which has always made them easy for poachers with nets or snares. They also make good use of the unsown lines left in arable crops which are now such a part of modern farming practices. When they are chased they know exactly where they are heading.

- Jill Mason
The Hare

Image: "Hare in the Barley" by Bells of Suffolk.

Checkum

Former UK Big Brother House Mate Dale Howard is appearing naked in a campaign for the UK Charity Macmillan Cancer Support aimed at encouraging men to check for testicular cancer.

Tribe

Tribe, from "Survival" by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Color lithograph with chine colle; 35/50.