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Tag Archives: ocean
Thinking Like a Creek
1. Stumbling from the lean-to late one night, relieve an aching bladder. Stars shine brightly through the broken canopy of Baxter wilds. I think of The Maine Woods by Thoreau: “In the night I dreamed of trout fishing.” Silence, like … Continue reading
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Tagged fly-fishing, home, nature, ocean, philosophy, poetry, reading the water, small streams, Thinking Like a Creek, travel, Walt Franklin, Water, writing
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Of Science, Poetry, and Adventure
The Pond Picking blackberries on my walk uphill, I came to the secret pond, the kind that everyone should have and never talk about– except as poetry. I loaded the short fly rod with a line, a leader, and an … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, fly-fishing, lake, mystery, nature, ocean, poetry, pond, popper, science, sunfish
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Rivertop Rambles 