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Tag Archives: summer
The Home Stretch
I was fishing the home stretch of a local river, a favorite section of the headwaters, a place where I could hang my fishing hat, or fly rod, on an aging log and feel as comfortable as a dog beside … Continue reading
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Tagged dry fly, environment, fishing, Genesee, home, home water, nature, simplicity, summer, Time, trout, wildness, writing
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A River Fell Through It
For me, the long holiday weekend started with my fifth-grade students planting flags at the graves of veterans buried in the Bath National Cemetary. It would end there four days later when we pulled those numerous flags for use next … Continue reading
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Tagged cat, celebration, craft beers, family, friends, Genesee River, Letchworth State Park, memorial, Memorial Day, nature, Railhead Brewery, summer, waterfalls
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When the Swallows Fly
Around here, it happens every August 27th, give or take a day. The barn swallows leave the site where they have been “our birds” since the end of April. On a late summer morning, the air above the old barn … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-fly cast, dry fly, migration, Pink Floyd, poetry, reason, Robert Frost, summer, swallows, transitions, wet fly
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