It's Funny How things Fall into Place.
Have you seen my spiffy big cats? A nice look for Fall the King of the Jungle in Ralph Lauren I had just decided to write this week's blog about my Big Cat collages when I heard on NPR a story about Bertie Gregory, nature photographer and filmmaker, talking about what it takes to film wild animals--that would be passion and persistence. He followed a pride of lions for months, working with conservationists to attach tracking devices on them. He got to hold a Lioness's head while she got pinned and said he'd never realized how really big a lion's head is. He learned that among the greatest threats to the lions is snares; they get entangled in the traps set for smaller animals and then they're in real trouble. My first thought was, "Call the mice!" Remember Aesop's fable of the Lion and the Mouse? Where the Lion caught a mouse but didn't eat him and later he got ensnared in a trap and the mouse gnawed away the ropes and the Lion was free. Aesop...