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How time flies
Juggling a job, life, volunteer projects, travel, and our crazy world- it’s easy to lose track until life knocks you on your buttt. Continue reading
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The little things on the prairie
Wading through the grasslands at American Prairie Reserve, I found a sea full of life. Continue reading
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The Company That I Keep
I look like one of those people, but I’m not. No, I don’t watch television. There is too much else to do. But that “else” isn’t pursuit of the spiritual, the religious, the social. I do things with my beat… Continue reading
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The upside of day hikes- Lake Valhalla and Skyline Divide trails
The day hike is a modern convention, dependent on the automobile and decent roads that allow us to leave our homes and return the same day, with a walk in between. If the trail is close, the roads are good,… Continue reading
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The Horse Trailer Sings Again
In a year where I’m grabbing for the steering wheel and brake pedal as the driverless car careens down a ravine, the patterns of nature go on as usual. For the second year, a Bewicks wren has built a nest in a compartment under the… Continue reading
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Park Butte-Railroad Grade on a full moon
Besides working like a dog and finalizing my Certified Interpretive Trainer and Envision certifications, I am trying to get back to wilderness fitness so I can go to Baffin Island next year and backpack the Arctic Circle for 3 weeks,… Continue reading
A Place of River and Sky 