Living In Place
Experiencing Totality: My Solar Eclipse
I Wasn't Gonna Go I never intended to drive 150 miles to Totality during Monday’s solar eclipse, not when I read that 200,000 people were expected to flood the parts of northern...
Air Travel Is All Indoors
Air Travel is All Indoors On a recent trip to visit family in Montana, I spent twelve hours traveling there. Except for the minute it took to say goodbye to Tim at the airport, I...
Birds of a Feather . . .
Sunday's wet snow stuck to every twig, branch and tree. . . . Flock Together The snow that fell overnight Sunday into Monday stuck to every twig, branch, and tree like wet...
Winter Arrives
Every Day Outdoors, 1/17/24 "Bright, white daylight. Insinuating wind. Skiing across the fields, both sweating and chilled. It feels as if winter has finally arrived." I broke...
Outside Every Day
In mid-December, I had this idea to go outside every day, no matter the time, no matter the weather. It wasn’t to do anything in particular, except to be outdoors, feel the air...
Back on the Trail
Christmas Day Hike on Black Mountain With no snow on the ground, we decided on a Christmas Day hike up Black Mountain. It’s a short, five-and-a-half mile loop to 1,250 feet just...