Several weeks before a Minnesota police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for eight minutes and forty-six...
Up on Caterpillar Hill
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Forbidden
I had seen a few snakes in my early years, but my first real introduction to a serpent came at 6 years of age and was...
A Bird in Hand
Faint streaks of pink already stretch over the mountains. I’d lingered over that second cup of coffee too long. I...
Red in tooth and claw
We got our first laying hens for a couple of reasons: free-range chicken eggs taste way better than store bought (it’s...
Crawdads
The most humble of waters call to me. Chocolate-milk-colored seeps and tinkling rocky rivulets no wider than a long...
Sunfish
Sunfish… Memories of sunburst colors that put most tropical fish to shame still spring to my mind whenever I hear the...
Eat or be eaten
Gut-hooked bass are nearly always dead bass, but this one was just barely gut hooked. Thankfully, I’d pressed the barb...
Blood Brother
He materializes out of river-bottom tangles, silent as the morning mist that hangs thick in the cottonwood and...
Water tables
I’ve gotten into this habit of listening to Jason Isbell and the 400 Unite while I garden. I love to sing along with...
Rebuilding the soil
Back when it was still cold, we decided to try our hand at a no till garden — a mixture of hügelkultur and lasagna...
Pearly Everlasting
I haven’t had a chance to write about it much, but I seldom choose to leave our house these days. My home is on...
Gar Hole
Point Remove Creek’s slow warm currents dawdle in the lazy hot days of mid-summer. The creek bottom’s air dawdles,...
Up on Caterpillar Hill
Several weeks before a Minnesota police officer kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for eight minutes and forty-six...
Forbidden
I had seen a few snakes in my early years, but my first real introduction to a serpent came at 6 years of age and was...
A Bird in Hand
Faint streaks of pink already stretch over the mountains. I’d lingered over that second cup of coffee too long. I...
Red in tooth and claw
We got our first laying hens for a couple of reasons: free-range chicken eggs taste way better than store bought (it’s...