Here is an astonishing clip I shot a few days ago while driving along quake lake in light snow flurries. It’ s a group of big horn rams involved in some strange dynamic: they appear to be hostile but also trying to hump each other. Clip starts in black and white and switches to some color footage shot through the windshield of my truck. Classic Silkblog wildness!
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Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #10: Beadhead Nymph and Strike Indicator
Well, we’re at the end of another week of the Goatsilk’s Daily treasures project. Amazing! Our first two auctions from early last week have ended, and both the antique pepsi bottle and the Model T door handle have sold to lucky bidders! Today’s bounty was a bit more mundane, at least for these parts. We scavenged a couple of fisherman’s items (a beadhead nymph and a strike indicator) dropped under Raynold’s bridge on the Madison river. Imagining how they got there is not difficult, but it may make you laugh! Bid on the auction HERE and get a couple of cheap used fly-fishing trinkets for that fisherman you love.
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #9: White Arrowhead
Today’s discovery of a partially carved white arrowhead is linked to the story of Noah Epstein, the son of Jewish immigrants who came to Montana, via Ellis Island, in the late 1800’s. Noah’s dreams of converting to Native Americanism eventually came true in this heartening outsider’s tale. Bid HERE to own this precious relic and tell the tale to all your friends.
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living off The Land! Episode #8: Cisco Systems Golfball
This Cisco Systems Teitlist golf ball is an obscure little item to find out here in the sage brush. A recent deposit on the land, it serves as a reminder of a life of leisure and relaxation with friends. A Cisco Sysytems golfball stands for a way of life that isn’t a struggle, but a triumph, filled with snowcapped mountains, hybrids, and home cooked organic chicken dishes. Conversely, The romantic dream of a marriage between poor folks is a delusion. Who after all wants a life of 1 am Carl’s Junior, shag carpet with xbox 360, traffic school, and frozen pizzas? Bid on this Cisco Systems golf ball to remind yourself that marrying a business professional is much better for your long term health.
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #7: Antique Gold Sieving Pan
Goatsilk is joined by Dr Roy Winters, founder of the Northwest Gold Institute. He finds a gold-sieving pan from the frontier days which he believes may have belonged to the first female gold digger, Molly Kearney. He tells a fascinating (and tragic) story which would make anyone want to own a part of the unique history of gold in the USA. Hear his expert summary and bid HERE quickly to receive a free 19 ounce replica of the largest gold nugget ever found in the region.
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #6: Futuristic Sceptre
Well here’s a surprise. Today we found something buried in the ground which is not from the past, but the future. Amazing. Items from the future - not surprisingly - are quite desirable. Hurry up and place your bid HERE!
Allow Me To Break Your Heart
Exquisite new footage of bluebird chicks only hours after hatching. These little guys hatched from the beautiful eggs shown last week in THIS post) Amazing to watch their almost featherless bodies squirm in contest for the warmth of the middle. This is a picture of life, raw and tender enough to break your heart.
Ripe Season Wildlife
We took a jaunt up to Bozeman today to pick up my brother at the airport. It was stormy on the way back down 191 but there was crazy wildlife. The spring season is indeed the ripest, the rivers full, animals are out in droves, everything fresh, raw, biting. We stopped a couple times to take pics. This moose walking along the Gallatin river is majestic, but watch to the end of the clip to see a trio of Big Horn Rams stand stoic then make a hillside dash through the trees. Strong gothic beasts! The footage of the rams was taken almost at night with the aperture and shutter way open, thus the grain/ blur. Still pretty cool.
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #5: Sharecropper’s Shovelhead
This classic sharecropper’s shovelhead auction caps off a bountiful week of treasure hunting on the land . We like to think of it as a regular work week, and we’ve already begun to see the profits with fresh ebay bids for the antique pepsi bottle, the turn of the century water bucket, and the Model T door handle. Don’t be caught in the cold without a treasure of your own. Click HERE and bid!
Goatsilk’s Daily Treasures - Living Off The Land! Episode #4: Modernist Pillow
This pillow found by the side of highway 87 near the Raynold’s pass bridge has been touched by the artful hand of nature. It struck us immediately as having similar qualities to a Vija Celmin galaxy drawing, or maybe a combination of Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin. This pillow is alive, literally. It could be framed and hung, or more practically it could be preserved and used as a driving cushion or a stylish camping grade baby changing mat. View the ebay auction and bid on this exciting find HERE.