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 days can be quite warm. But rather than feeling oppressive
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 the Great Lakes and most of the rest of what
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 hue across the landscape. The long green stems that had
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 honking on a morning in late March wells up hope
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. He was an outdoor writer who passed away in 1956.
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 am high enough to look out over acre upon acre.
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; here I come!” Of course, if you weren’t ready, meaning
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 have described the color as ‘passionate purple’. The vocal color
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 I ever knew in my childhood. If you would have
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 bucket with other ice fishing gear, appropriately shoved in a
