Personal Loss
#1
Posted 08 June 2006 - 01:19 PM
This man was my hero. I used to haunt his steps as a kid until I was old enough to do work for him. I learned more about the outdoors and nature from him and his sons than anyone.
When I grow up, I want to be a naturalist too.
http://news.enquirer...0104/606070400/
BTW, to die at 93 and in your sleep isn't bad, but I still mourn his passing as I honor his life.
Mark
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Posted 08 June 2006 - 01:37 PM
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Posted 08 June 2006 - 02:17 PM
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 04:50 AM
#5
Posted 03 August 2006 - 12:59 PM
I'll let you in on a secret, some of his neater shots took place in his garage.
Seriously, we'd build a habitat in his garage for whatever he was shooting, with attention to detail. Then the lights and wind and subject could be well controlled.
To be sure, he did a TON of blind work, too, but some critters are just easier to shoot on a set. I remember opening up the garage to find a brace of Barred owls hissing at me from the "rafters of a Barn". Nearly wet my pants on that one.
I don't want to be maudlin. He lived a long and happy and productive life and died, still mentally sound, in his home, side stepping the whole nursing home thing. I can only think of one better way to go, and no better way to have lived.
Mark
Addendum. After the funeral, I met Karl's much younger GIRLFRIEND. Charming, fun red head who liked fishing with him. She was with him the night he died. She told me he gave her a back rub and then went to sleep. He never woke up.
She also advised me that his ashed were deposited in two of his favorite streams that Friday. Evidently, I was fishing about 1 mile down stream of one of those points that evening. Essentially, I was wading in one of the greatest, funniest, kindest, individuals I've ever known.
Oddly, I also unexpectedly hooked into a huge fish that evening that fought me for quite some time before I quickly released it.
Make of that, what you will.
M
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