WATERFALLS IN THE SUMMER
Summer brings heat, there is no argument there. Even at the northern latitudes, even at elevation, heat is part and parcel of summer. Many times …
VISITING MARK TWAIN
In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn’t know it; and everybody was comfortable and did …
FINDING A PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALTY
A vast number of people take possibly millions of photographs every single day. With the advent of the modern full-featured smart phone, essentially a hand-held …
SPRING FORAGING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
DISCLAIMER: This post is NOT a definitive source of instruction in the foraging of wild food. It is simply a recounting of what I have …
LIVING HISTORY
History has held a fascination for me from a very young age. I remember being told stories of my family’s history and wanting to know …
A TURN OF PHRASE
It is clear that many of our favorite writers have a gift for using language. Whether the writer is describing a scene, expounding a truth, …
SPRING AND FALSE SPRING
As March appears and moves through it’s days, many people living in snow country have become weary of the white stuff. Some have been dealing …
WINTER CAMP
Twenty years is a considerable amount of time within someone’s “three score and ten”. When a person is twenty years old, the age of forty …
LOGGING ON THE BACK HILL
When I purchased my house 25 years ago, I learned that at one time the property had been a farm. Over the years, relatively large …
THE OLD FASHIONED JOY OF PAPER MAPS
“Nonetheless, for me, twenty-five square inches of pixels cannot deliver the same sense of location as can fifteen-hundred square inches of paper road map – …
WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND
“Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?” Oops! Sorry, wrong adventure. But I could hardly help myself with that title. Seriously, winter is a great time …
PHOTOGRAPHY IN WINTER
Photography during the winter months is both challenging and exhilarating. Some aspects of taking pictures are easier while other aspects are exponentially more difficult, particularly …