Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Until Green Bay meteorologist, Justin Steinbrinck first mentioned it a three days ago, I had never heard of ice fog and I've lived through 57 winters. It sounded kind of cool to me, though, like something Jack Frost would dance through, or Alfred Hitchock would produce outside a dimly lit rear windows. Turns out, it's [...]
We ducked under the specter of autumn this weekend and sailed with the wind through one final, determinedly summer day. Sail might be a generous verb for what we did, which involved some tugging and yanking, but eventually we found our flow and let the current carry us for a time. How often do we [...]
I wonder how our rivers will record this volatile year. What stories will they tell in the sediment they leave behind? Does the 2020 moon wax in sympathy, or wane in dismay? Will the stressed roots of this year's trees grow deeper, will their acorns offer hope? Do the tides of 2020 hurry out and [...]
We made the happy discovery that several farms near our cabin are growing sunshine this year, the perfect antidote to 2020. Fields of sunflowers stretch straight to the horizon and reminded me (I apologize for this) of the Brady Bunch classic, It's A Sunshine Day. I think i'll go for a walk outside nowThe summer [...]
He would have been as taken aback by this global pandemic as the rest of us, but my dad knew all about social distancing. In fact, that was his aim when he bought an isolated chunk of farm land more than 40 years ago. He wanted a place where he could roam the woods like [...]