It’s Cloud’s Illusions I Recall

It’s Cloud’s Illusions I Recall

Bonnie and I were playing along one of our favroite stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway last weekend when we found ourselves looking out over the Cradle of Forestry from Pounding Mill Overlook. One of the wonders of working in July in the Southern Appalachians is the...
Spokes for a Butte

Spokes for a Butte

One of the most excellent adventures the High Desert of the Southwest has to offer is the dusty, dirt track of the Behind the Reef Road, northwest of Goblin Valley and roughly parallel to Utah Highway 24. And if you go in anything other than a high-clearance, 4-WD...
When the Gales of November Come Early

When the Gales of November Come Early

At the far eastern end of Michigan’s fabeled Upper Peninsula, Whitefish Point marks a turn to the south in the shoreline of Kitchi-Gami, as the biggest lake narrows and leads by decrease to the St. Mary’s River and the great locks of Sault-Sainte Marie. In...
Intimacy in a Wet Land

Intimacy in a Wet Land

By the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago, great ice sheets covered much of what is now Canada and the northern United States. By 8,000 years ago their immense weight had withdrawn beyond the boreal region along what is now the United States-Canada...