The Season of October October, perhaps more specifically, the first three weeks or so of October are a season unto themselves. The weather is unique. Early on some of the […]
For the last five or six years I have finished the trout season in southwestern Wisconsin, in an area known as the driftless region. The glaciers that scoured out […]
It started, as it usually does, subtly. The seed heads of the grasses lining the roads and in the fallow farm fields ripened and began to cast a tawny brown […]
The honking of a skein of Goose on a late October day always raises a sense of urgency as they sing to Autumn melding into the coming of winter. And […]
A few weeks ago, I attended what was advertised as a Gordon MacQuarrie “pilgrimage”. I put pilgrimage in quotes because Gordon MacQuarrie was not an overtly religious man. […]
My usual morning walk route takes me past a significant stretch of restored prairie. The big blue stem grasses stand a full six feet tall. Walking on the road I […]
I remember playing hide and seek as a youngster. Whoever was “it” had to count off to the designated number and once there, had to yell out “Ready of not; […]
These past few weeks there has been is a good-size slash of deep purple on the backside of a section of split-rail fence in my backyard. My brother Tom would […]
Things that go bump, or maybe not, in the Night – 8/19/2022 Summer and camping went together in my family. In fact, camping was the only kind of summer vacation […]
The Diddle Pole – 8/12/2022 I looked for it the other day, even though the August temperature was pushing 90 degrees. It was where it should be – in a […]
