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Tag Archives: animals
Water Lines
I hadn’t been fishing in a while and felt the need to reconnect. We’ve been working on the house all year, and some of the wettest months on record have produced poor opportunities for being on the water. Still, I … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, connections, dialogue, dream, fishing, mother nature, play, poetry, tracks, trout, Water, water lines, work, writing
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The Fisher Connection
I was following the tracks of a large coyote along a Susquehannock State Forest trail but thinking that, unfortunately, there was little other sign of bird or mammal life. Then, about a mile up the snowy trail, I caught sight … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, civil rights, Earth, fisher, fisher tracks in snow, freedom, hiking, Martin Luther King, nature, personal connections, photography, Top Searches, wild, wildlife
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Walking the Runs
1. Around here we call them “runs”– the small streams tumbling down the wooded slopes to the river valleys (particularly on the Pennsylvania side of the rivertop region). Nearly all of them interest me, especially those whose habitats include the … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, brook trout, evolution, fly-fishing, knowing the territory, nature, perfection, personal journal, plants, recreation, runs, sacred, sense of place, Slate/Cedar run, small streams, think small, trillium, walking
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