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Winter Exploration

Winter Exploration

There were a couple of spots on the map that looked interesting; a stream I had been trying to find a way down to and, across the road, another stream with a pond I hadn't checked out. Last weekend, we went looking for them.            ...

My Big Red Kelty

My Big Red Kelty

  You guys would have loved the backpack I started Boy Scouts with. My father was so proud to hand down to me the pride and joy from his Boy Scout days, a Trapper Nelson pack. Wooden framed, with a canvas bag, web shoulder straps and leather straps with buckle...

When Will I Learn?

When Will I Learn?

  “You know, you don’t have to go camping if the weather is going to be awful,” remarked my wife as she eyed the leaden winter sky. Despite the deteriorating weather, I stubbornly clung to my plans. Sure, it was December, but the forecast was for light rain and...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/2/25 5:30 36F (2.2C) Calm, cold, relatively  dry. The moon has gone to bed. It is a dark morning. Above me the broken clouds are flecked with stars.                            ...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  12/1/25 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Silvery-gray freezing fog ebbing and flowing, sometimes dense and enveloping,  sometimes retreating to the shadows of the surrounding trees. It hit freezing early  last night and the temperature has dropped since then, making the first...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/30/25 5:30 34F (1.1C) Cloudy, dark, still. It rained a little last night, but seems to have dried out. A car drives by. I see a couple of stars poke through the clouds low in the west. To the east, a neighbor's paranoid light rends the cloak of night...

Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/29/25 5:30 32F (0.0C) Calm, cloudy and dark. The half moon was setting behind the oaks when I went to bed last night.  This morning is dark and still, with a coat of ice. Fog is rising from the creek and creeping through the briars and rank grass. The...

Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/28/25 8:30 41F (5C) Broad daylight.  I slept in. It is a calm morning,  with birds chittering, foggy around the edges. A light mist is falling from the gray clouds overhead. Yesterday the family was over, about thirty people, including seven kids. The house...