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Tag Archives: photos
Winter Break
The nasally, low-pitched notes of the nuthatch enter through my bedroom window (open even in winter and appreciated from beneath the comforters) and I sense my own reawakening. The white-breasted’s wha-wha-wha notes enter non-committedly, sliding in softly from the maples … Continue reading
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Tagged birding, hiking, home, nature, photos, poetry, Spring, transitions, winter, writing
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A Glance at the Rearview Mirror
As 2020 drives itself into the ground, a lot of us would say, Just let ‘er rip. Most would agree that the past year has been odd, to say the least, and, in some cases, down right tragic. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, cheer, Colorado, fishing, fly-fishing, holidays, Montana, national parks, photos, rearview mirror, Rocky Mountains, travel, Wyoming
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Shadow of Katahdin
Preparing for Maine, my wife and I spent several pleasant days with our daughter near coastal Rhode Island. Moving into Baxter State Park in northern Maine, we escaped the noise and madness of the world by settling into a lean-to … Continue reading
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Tagged Baxter State Park, camping, fly-fishing, hiking, Katahdin, Maine, nature, photos, recreation, travel, vacations, Woods & Waters Nat'l Monument, writing
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Fishing the Lost Terrain
I’ve got this notion of a “lost terrain” and think I might discover it through my wanderings. Hiking with a walking stick or fishing with an artificial fly, I imagine there’s a special place that’s close at hand, mysterious but … Continue reading
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Tagged fishing, hiking, home, landscape, lost terrain, nature, photos, poetry, Thoreau, wildness, writing
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A Different Kind of Fish
I’m gonna keep this short because I’m on the road to Virginia. My title for the post does not refer to a species other than the usual salmonid that you might encounter here, but to a wild brown trout, modest … Continue reading
Double Focus
Someone recently asked if I could do a small post on the Adirondack fishing scene of late because he hadn’t been able to get up into the mountains for a while. I thought it over and decided I could probably … Continue reading
We-Who-Went-to-the-Sun (and-Weren’t-Eclipsed!)
“A national park highway should have not only fine natural scenery, but exhibitions of ingenious engineering skill. It should have at least a few tunnels, galleries, terraces, bridges, hairpin turns, and all that sort of thing– to produce the surprises, … Continue reading
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Tagged camping, engineering, exploration, fly-fishing, Glacier National Park, glaciers, Going-to-the-Sun-Road, hiking, Montana, national parks, nature, photos, Rocky Mountains, Sun, travel, Tully Lake
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Of Grizzly Bears and Cutthroat Trout
[In which Yellowstone National Park becomes a focus in the 4th part of my “Top of the Rockies” travelogue. I hope that you enjoy.] The wide sagebrush spaces of western Wyoming finally narrowed in a series of canyons near the … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, camping, cutthroat, environment, exploration, fly-fishing, grizzly bear, Henry's Fork, hiking, nature, osprey, photos, Snake River, Soda Butte Creek, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone
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Dinosaurs on the Green
It was a cool day with light rain showers as friends from Salt Lake City joined us for a cold-desert romp outside of Vernal, Utah. Emma and Brendan joined Brent, Catherine, Leighanne, and yours truly for a visit to the … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, canyon, desert, Dinosaur, exploration, Flaming Gorge, fly-fishing, Green River, Harper's Corner, hiking, national monument, nature, photos, Sounds of Silence, travel, Utah, Yampa River
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Brief
When the human world seems absolutely maddening (the insanity triggered by such trifles as fidget spinners with kids, the rush for smartphone upgrades in adults, and the latest threats to the economy, environment and world peace from the fools who guide our destiny), I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard, beauty, brevity, brief, brook trout, environment, fly-fishing, humanity, morels, nature, photos, red fox, sanity, small streams, Spring, work
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