Nature
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“All that is solid melts into air.”
Last Tuesday, three days after my 61st birthday, I was thigh-high in the Blue, just outside Silverthorne, Colorado. The water was cold, in the low fifties. The air was about the same. I had been fishing the bend in the river for an hour to no avail. I know there is a trough to the Continue reading
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The View of Everest
“Our adventure came to a halt, high in the mountains, ten miles from Everest…” Continue reading
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Demands of the Gull
I was accosted while walking home from Flat Bread Pizza last night. The culprit was a three-pound herring gull intent on seeing what was in the left-over box. Slyly, I tore off a piece of crust and knelt down. I extended my arm, crust offered. The bird approached. I studied the beast as it cautiously Continue reading
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Snow Under Boot
Maybe a walk in the woods should remain largely and exactly that: a walk in the woods. Continue reading
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Sunday Repost: Out of Ambivalence
Two weeks ago [original post, June 2010], Carole, Lucy, and I went north to Moosehead Lake for a few days of North Woods camping and canoeing. At one point, as the sun set and the stars emerged, I stood on the shore and looked across the lake. I was peering perhaps two miles across the water. I Continue reading
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Sunday Repost: …the american dog tick…
…the words blood meal make me uneasy. Continue reading
...the house I live in... 