In the woods

LONG HAUL

November 22, 2011

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. …and sometimes you throw a punch that starts from your toes and finishes with you standing over him saying get up…I’m not done with you yet. This here’s the long haul. You’re either all-in or your not. Big props to Eric Hornung for the design, ink and old-school hip-hop buffet while [...]

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TRACKING DAD’S DEER

October 24, 2011

I had just walked back from my stand to the truck to meet the kids. Dressed in sweatshirts, jeans, muck boots and still sporting bed-head, they were ready to get into the woods and help track my deer. Cam: Dad! You got a buck? Jonah: Where is he? Cam: Man, I can’t wait to see [...]

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FOR THOSE FOLLOWING ALONG AT HOME

September 26, 2011

Two years have now officially passed since my first blog post. It’s been a great ride so far, and I consider myself fortunate to have the modest audience I do. I’m also fortunate to have met–in real life–a couple dozen people I’ve connected with through the blog and social media circles, including other writers, photographers, [...]

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VIEW FROM THE FIRE TOWER

August 15, 2011

I’m reminded of a poem by Gary Snyder, written while a fire lookout in the North Cascades. Months at a time he’d spend in service and solitude. Thinking. From six stories up, I can see the attraction. Sprawling topography of mountainsides and valleys, so much softer from this height, stitched one to the other in [...]

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