How I spent my summer vacation
“So Much Beauty in the Dirt” – Modest Mouse
The Recipe
“In The Summertime” – The Rural Alberta Advantage
Second Anniversary Ingredients:
- beautiful wife
- brown dog
- backpack
- blanket
- bottle of wine
- (2) blue tin cups
- backcountry
STILL OUT THERE
“So Much” – Timber Timbre
There are places out there still relatively untouched.
Places where the scars of industry and civilization are few. Places beyond the reach of cell
DUMPED
“Balancing Act in Blue” – Sean Hayes
I’d like to tell you that it was a huge fight with an epic fish or battling massive five foot waves but that wasn’t the case. It was
TOUCH ALL THE BASES
“Blackberry Song” – Kurt Vile
Crawl out of that dusty sleeping bag and greet the day. Sit on the tailgate and rub the sleep from your eyes. Think about coffee, reach into the
Recalibrate
“Free Will” – Bry Webb
Sometimes “it’s good just to get out”, isn’t so much a cliche as it is an understatement.
Red-winged blackbirds in the reeds, the rocking of the boat, a
DAWDLE, DAWDLE . . . HURRY
Pike are hell on flies.
Razor sharp teeth and aggressive strikes, leave a fly box full of torn and shredded bits of feather and fur.
At the end of every season, inventory is
The Cold Shoulder
Flush a bird in the winter and this is the look you’ll get.
A mixture of anger and annoyance, contempt and confusion. She thought you were partners. She thought that you and her
Break Trail
Its dark and cold and there’s a lethargy that swallows all good intentions, call it Seasonal Affective Disorder or the Post-Bird Season Blues.
The solution is simple.
Step
It’s As Far Away Now As It’ll Ever Be
Just a few weeks ago the skies were blue, the clover green and the birds were still moving in the afternoon sun.
But then the daylight dwindles, the thermometer plummets, the