Tag Archives: Spring

Beautiful Country, Wrong Address

Posted on May 26, 2021 by rivertoprambles

A large truck hauling tires jack-knifed on the country road where I reside. I stopped to assist, and the mildly distraught driver scratched his head and looked at the back end of his rig that had fallen into a serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adventure, fly fishing, Genesee River, nature, nymphing, Pine Creek, Seth Green, Spring, sunrise, timber rattlesnake, writing, wrong address | 17 Comments

Spring/ Sprung!

Posted on March 20, 2021 by rivertoprambles

I love all four seasons in New York, but spring… ah…. Two days ago I stepped out into the gray and misted dawn and listened to the first real song of the American robin. I accepted what I heard as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American robin, birds, environment, natural history, nature, On the Helderhill, poetry, Spring, tracks, Vernal Equinox, William Christman, woodchuck, writing | 17 Comments

The Pulse of the Run

Posted on March 16, 2021 by rivertoprambles

The deep woods hike in middle March was a tough climb through the melting snow, two miles up the Pennsylvania tributary, and back. I wrote of this mountain hollow in Beautiful Like a Mayfly, 2015: “The tributary flows through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, fishing, headwaters, hiking, nature, solitude, Spring, transitions, trees, tributaries, wakefulness, writing | 26 Comments

Pine Creek Anticipation

Posted on March 4, 2021 by rivertoprambles

Suddenly the sky was clear, and the temperature rose well above the freezing mark. Although the ice on local streams and rivers was only now beginning to crack and drift away, I drove to Pennsylvania eager to prepare for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged angling, anticipation, hiking, history, Izaac Walton, literature, nature, Pine Creek, reading, Sketch Book, Spring, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, writing | 21 Comments

Winter Break

Posted on February 16, 2021 by rivertoprambles

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birding, hiking, home, nature, photos, poetry, Spring, transitions, winter, writing | 27 Comments

The Far and Fine, from Home

Posted on March 25, 2020 by rivertoprambles

1. The sun on rusted rails extending through a chain of ponds. Sun that softens the edge of ice; walkin’ blues colored by a smile. Sun reflecting from an eagle; thermals of the western ridge. The sun on a leaning … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, deep woods, haiku, home, narrative, nature, pandemic, poetry, Spring, Walt Franklin, Wings Over Water, writing | 18 Comments

An Excuse To Be…

Posted on March 6, 2020 by rivertoprambles

The arrival of March is always an exciting time for me, no matter what the weather’s like. It can be cold and snowy, wet and windy, or warm enough by day to get the sap flowing skyward through the maple … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birdwatching, flyfishing, nature, Nature writing, non-fiction, personal essays, poetry, Spring, Walt Franklin, Wings Over Water | 10 Comments

A Letort Original

Posted on February 20, 2020 by rivertoprambles

[ Although I introduced the following subject in a post about a year ago, I’d like to present it once more, this time from a somewhat difficult angle, accompanied by recent photos from the New York home water. Thanks, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bamboo, birds, Black Ant, brown trout, fishing tackle, fly-fishing, friendship, iconoclasm, Letort Spring Creek, nature, Spring, spring creeks, tenkara, writing | 10 Comments

Brookie Joe’s Quick Pics

Posted on April 15, 2019 by rivertoprambles

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blue Ridge, brook trout fishing, Catoctin National Park, environment, fly-fishing, hiking, Maryland, nature, photography, poetry, Spring, Virginia, wildflowers | 14 Comments

Allegheny Spring

Posted on April 1, 2019 by rivertoprambles

I was situated comfortably on the stream again. I was casting streamers with the new split-cane rod until the stonefly hatch informed me that a nymph or dry fly might be interesting. To be out in the warm spring air … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Allegheny River, birth, environment, fishing, nature, poetry, renewal, resistance, society, solitude, Spring, stoneflies, Walt Franklin, writing | 16 Comments