Old Three Toes

Old Three Toes

“Three Toes,” said an old rancher, with a kind of reverence, “is the fastest, longest-winded wolf that ever lived.” A smile swept across the craggy, weather-beaten face of Clyde F. Briggs as he read a telegram from the U. S, Biological Survey:...
Francis Golden – That Golden Touch

Francis Golden – That Golden Touch

Truly this is Golden’s touch, to give us the moment tinged with feeling…[by] putting his own enthusiasm on paper with sensitivity and style. I am not a fly fisherman, but the experience of standing in a rushing stream casting to trout lurking in deep pools...
Venator Laurentian Estate

Venator Laurentian Estate

Covering some 22,000 square miles of territory just north of Montreal in the southern part of Quebec, the Laurentian Mountains consist of Precambrian rocks more than 540 million years old, making its soft peaks among the oldest in the world. SPONSORED CONTENT: Here,...
Roasted Brays Quail and Foie Gras

Roasted Brays Quail and Foie Gras

Quail is a staple at Brays Island, and with the season starting in just a few months, we thought we would share a favorite recipe from our very own Executive Chef Bryant Withers. Roasted Brays Quail filled with wild mushrooms & Foie Gras Wrapped with bacon Yield-6...
Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...
Hemingway and the Dragons

Hemingway and the Dragons

“He’ll make a fine trophy,” Ernest declared, dragging the immense reptile from the vegetation. Too much sun, drink and time on the choppy sea had left John and Peter weak and lethargic. Swimming toward the distant beach the two men found each stroke...
The Bear and Lion Man

The Bear and Lion Man

Lily has been viewed both as a legendary hunter and a shameless poacher. In 1908 residents of Coahuila, Mexico, lived in fear of a large male grizzly that had laid claim to a stretch of road leading into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Vaqueros in the region avoided...
Portraits From the Deep – Guy Harvey

Portraits From the Deep – Guy Harvey

When I first set out to photograph these splendid creatures in their natural element, I realized the need to develop my own special methods. My heart was racing, my eyes wide in anticipation as the cloud of bubbles cleared… and there it was, silhouetted against...