“The oldest task in human history is to live

on a piece of land without spoiling it.”

- Aldo Leopold

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Bird 1/22/22 Bird 1/22/22

60 ~ First sign of spring! Sort of…

A couple of days ago, on Thursday, with the temp here below 0F…

Bird 1/15/22 Bird 1/15/22

59 ~ Cows and trout. Or, ‘brook trout’ by any other name.

In this heart of winter, I’ll brighten things up with a revisit to the subject of trout, via a piece I recently published about chasing trout in the Swiss Alps…

Bird 12/23/21 Bird 12/23/21

58 ~ Two years, many thanks

Well, here we are – today marks the second anniversary of the last time I grocery shopped….

Bird 12/15/21 Bird 12/15/21

57 ~ Holy leftovers

I was born, baptized and confirmed in the One, Holy, Apostolic and Catholic Church - have my ticket punched to heaven. Although I don’t subscribe today to the specifics of the Church’s dogma, I still enjoy returning to Mass on occasion…

Bird 11/29/21 Bird 11/29/21

56 ~ Thanksgiving afterglow

Here’s hoping you had a fine Thanksgiving, and it left in its wake even more stirrings of gratitude.

Bird 10/31/21 Bird 10/31/21

55 ~ Trout: A love story (with apologies to Michael Perry)

As the alchemy of fall burnishes the Driftless hills to copper and gold, I’m getting back to writing more, to my own attempt at alchemy.

Bird 10/23/21 Bird 10/23/21

Annoucement: Fomenting a fermentation

Greetings all. Of late I’ve been doing more traveling and trout fishing than writing, and hope to be back in the groove soon. In the meantime, tapping in to let you know…