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Tag Archives: Bob Dylan
Autumn Letter
The day begins like a sheet of paper waiting for words. Its composition won’t go digital until later, when darkness comes again. Two bald eagles sit together on a carcass near the road as I go speeding by, wishing I … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, composition, Egg, fishing, football, friendship, Henry James, hooks, letters, nature, poetry, Slate Run, trout flies, Walt Franklin, writing
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First Cast Similes
After my first day of volunteer work with the New York DEC Region 9 small stream electro-survey crew, I found that my long-awaited fly rod had arrived. The rod is a small bamboo, a 6’6″ 3-weight custom built by Mike … Continue reading
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Tagged bamboo fly rod, Bob Dylan, Cane and Silk, didymo, environment, first cast, Little Gem, nature, night fishing, photography, poetry, similes, small streams, songbirds, West Branch Delaware, writing
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It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Fishin’)
“He not busy being born is busy dying.“– Bob Dylan The early spring day started off rainy and then turned partly sunny, all the while punctuated by heavy winds. A good day to fly-fish? Following a winter of currents under … Continue reading
Elfin Bird of High Ravines
A few years ago on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I happened to step out to the creek where I’d soon find the secretive bird. I had known the winter wren for years prior to that occasion, but seeing it then … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, kinglets, Martin Luther King, personal freedom, ravines & gullies, sprites, Troglodytes, winter wren
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