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Monthly Archives: June 2017
The Rough Country
Whether we enjoy the notion or not, everyone who strives for well-being needs to stay in contact with the wild. Such contact is readily attained in sanctified places like our state and national parks, but we can’t always reach those … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple Tree Hollow, exploration, Gary Paul Nabhan, hiking, humanity, Life, nature, rough country, Slate Run, timber rattlesnake, trout fishing, wild
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Flycatcher
When the weather finally turned irresistible for the craft of venturing into the stream-lined depths of mother nature, I got on the West Branch Genesee and, later, the main stem Genesee. There, among the hills and hollows of the dual-state … Continue reading
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Tagged caddis, environment, fly patterns, flycatcher, flyfishing, Genesee River, Grannom, headwaters, nature, photography, rivertops, stocked trout, upper Genesee, wild trout, writing
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Good Days
I prepared for the long holiday weekend by assisting middle-school students in the planting of flags at the gravesites of veterans and fallen soldiers. The Veterans Administration Cemetery at Bath, N.Y. is a huge place, with thousands of gravestones on … Continue reading
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Tagged Brown Drake, environment, family, fly-fishing, good days, holidays, Letchworth State Park, mayflies, nature, photography, Pine Creek, Slate Run, veterans, waterfalls, writing
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Rivertop Rambles 