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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Winter Rose
Since the sad news I reported on in the last post, I’ve been happily wrapped up in a wide variety of holiday activities. I even got in a couple hours of fly-fishing in Shenandoah National Park. I spent a week in Washington … Continue reading
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Tagged brook trout, death, family, fly-fishing, holidays, Life, marriage, nature, photos, Rose, Rose River, Shenandoah Nat'l Park, travel, Virginia, Washington D.C., wild, winter
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Old Woodenhead’s Appointment
Old Woodenhead is a carving of an image of yours truly made by artist David Castano, by request of a special woman I know. Old Woodenhead, the fly-fisher, replete with a fishing creel that I have never used, has appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged carvings, Christmas, death, family, fly-fishing, hiking, Life, mother, nature, Old Woodenhead, photography, tradition, Walt Franklin, Winter Solstice, writing
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Self-Portrait in Leaky Waders
I should have known better– given the first sign of wetness on the legs after fishing in Virginia, I should have read the writing on the porous wall. The end had come for my one-year-old Field & Stream waders. And … Continue reading
Three Days in Shenandoah
On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, my son gave my wife and me a walking tour of Theodore Roosevelt Island on the tidal flats of the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. That morning walk on the circuit trail culminating … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 