Almanac: Flash Powder
The all-enveloping green of summer is gone. With the deciduous trees bare, the grasses brown,...
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The all-enveloping green of summer is gone. With the deciduous trees bare, the grasses brown,...
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the middle of a thicket of...
I dragged a chair to the south side of my house recently, the better to...
I had just paddled out from a narrow, cattail-bordered channel into the main body of...
While researching last week’s column about the Sunderland caves I came across a book about...
I’m not particularly claustrophobic, but, still, the hole in front of me was narrow and...
I had the rare luxury last week of watching the stars come out. I...
The sun had set, but it was still light out as a friend and I...
On an unusually balmy evening recently I was eating dinner with a friend on her...
All summer long, as I’ve been traipsing through woods, both locally and in more remote...
About a decade ago I built a 14-foot wooden kayak. It’s an attractive chestnut-brown boat...
I went mushroom hunting with some friends last weekend under grey, drizzly skies in some...