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Almost

I almost missed it. It was right in front of me, and I almost missed it. I was even looking down, looking for wildflowers, and I didn’t see it. In fact, I almost stepped on it. How do you miss something like that? And I would have missed it, were it not for the burst...
A Good Day

A Good Day

I try not to do this, try not to inflict one of those self-absorbed, egotistical chronicles about “what I did on the 19th of May,” but the fact is I had a good day afield on the 19th of May. Besides, I’m a fairly self-absorbed and egotistical kind of guy. Herewith the...

Voice of the Turtle

I was driving north on 235 the other day and passed a small church along the side of the road. As is common these days, the church had a marquee out front and the parson had posted a quote from scripture. Nothing unusual there, but the quote itself gave me pause: “the...