The wing on the "Fish Hawk" here is tyed with hen pheasant wing quills. The fibers are shorter than turkey but the delicate brown and tan mottling makes for a nice effect. Guineafowl The "Beauty" is an elegant fly that uses guinea wing quills for the wing and tail. Smaller body feath...
Five francs in our parking meter, voracious after its weekend slumber, will give us two hours to get to the market and back before driving north. American friends assure me that they always ignore Paris parking tickets--one proudly boasts of a collection of several thousand dating back to the...