In the woods

WEEKEND SORTIES

May 17, 2011

The school bus comes every weekday morning at twelve after eight. It stops out front of the house, pausing traffic in both directions for about sixty seconds before roaring off with the kids and their perpetual bed-head. Between this daily morning routine, our debilitating spring weather and the fact that I’ve actually had work on [...]

Read the full article →

CRACK OF DAWN

May 9, 2011

By quarter-to-six the decoys looked perfect in the field out front of the blind, a coyote had drifted across the field like a sneaky shadow, and the cadence from the inmates at Willard was on the breeze. From 7 miles away its population of convicted drug-addicts were out for their red jumpsuit left-right-left rain or [...]

Read the full article →

WE’RE VIKINGS, SUCKA

March 21, 2011

We dig Spring. As a matter of fact this year we did a whole bunch of celebrating and out-of-door reveling the day before Spring arrived just so we’d be out of its way when it crawled out from the barn, the bushes, the flattened flowerbeds and walnut trees in the back yard in the cold [...]

Read the full article →

FRONTIER

March 6, 2011

I’m tired of small spaces. I’m not talking about my space at work…although I am definitely tired of that too. I’m talking about our woods and water. Our wild places. We’re losing them. There’s no such thing as a little patch of heaven. Little patches of heaven suck. They are what’s left when sprawl corners [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →