Nov. 10 | The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Failing to stalk blue sheep: slinking, instead, into black rivers with a seraphic air
Tuning out an extinct station: a trip to Peru, a breakthrough, and creative conservation

Snow leopard taste: roast barleycorns

"Panther," Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1897

At home: pumpkin spice Mighty-O maple bar; steamed kale with sesame seeds
Snow leopard sight: Tibetan snow finches; Turkestan hill pigeon; Black Canyon
At home: "A Country Home," Frederic Edwin Church, 1854; "Anthony of Padua," Kehinde Wiley 2013 - a visit to seattleartmuseum.org
Snow leopard sound: faint tinklings; melt trickles; hallow drumming of wild hooves; shrill peeping
At home: Collide "Head Spin"; Jane Jensen "More Than I Can"
Snow leopard touch: hot "imagine a striped and shiny lizard above 15,000 feet, in deep November!"
At home: blow dryer
Snow leopard extra: ringing splendor
At home: list of extinct panthera via The Sixth Extinction

• panthera pardus adersi, the Zanzibar Leopard 
• panthera leo leo, the Barbary Lion
• panthera leo melanochaitus, the Cape Lion
• panthera tigris balica, the Bali Tiger
• panthera tigris sondaica, the Javan Tiger
• panthera tigris virgata, the Caspian Tiger

Snow leopard gratitude: luminous days
At home: snowleopard.org - snow leopard conservation

Panthera progress: a structural breakthrough, perhaps!

What is this? Blogging The Snow Leopard project.