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Tag Archives: place
Fishing the Cold Dew
No, the Cold Dew isn’t some new trout stream I’ve discovered. Rather, it’s a mini-season designated for early October by the ancient Chinese. The ancients, like those of us responding to shorter daylight hours and to longer, cooler nights, took … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, caddis, Cold Dew, fishing, heart, incompleat angler, mortality, nature, place, soul, trout, writing
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Winter Spring
Mid-February, and I track through the snow toward a big spring in the hills. I’d follow the deer prints but it’s easier to step inside the wheel ruts of an ATV. I read new promise in the strengthening light. Grouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Leopold, community, environmental law, headwaters, nature, place, poetry, politics, preservation, prose, small streams, winter spring, writing
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Blue Ridge Buffer, Part 1
[All photos in Part 1 are recent takes from a grey and partly frozen landscape in the north country. Rainbow trout from Allegheny River. Stay tuned for brighter and more southerly perspectives as this series progresses.] As the new fishing … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Ridge, buffer zone, civilization, family, fly-fishing, hiking, migration, photography, place, Shenandoah National Park, Spring, travel, upstate New York, Virginia, wilderness
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Roots ‘n’ Boots
For most citizens living in a modern world, to talk about the “home place” is an unfamiliar exercise. Most of us today are socially mobile and often move from place to place for economic or recreational reasons. Today, we rarely live in one … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, brook trout, Buckseller Run, cherry trees, civilization, environment, hiking, home, home place, nature, Pennsylvania, place, silence, Spring, state forest, Susquehannock, Time, wilderness, winter
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Trout Lives Matter
So the carp, posed briefly by the riverside before its release, said to me, and I quote: “So trout lives matter to you, as lives of all scales and colors matter to you, and that’s why you chose to fish … Continue reading
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Tagged American rivers, carp, drought, environment, fishing, global warming, matter, nature, photography, place, poetry, politics, survival, trout
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Rivertop Rambles 