Of course, if one prefers to omit the difficult-to-pronounce "r" in cow-pyrography, one does come up with "cow-pie-ography" which clearly refers to another subject altogether. Maybe he was tired of making boot-heel impressions in some of those steaming pasture pastries or meadow wafers, as Utah Phillips called them in his "moose turd pie" story. Just a thought.

Sandy (still dealing with semantics)