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The Hunter.

18-Dec-14

where to buy Pregabalin 150mg I love how the snow of winter produces, like a court reporter, a continual transcript of all the events that take place on the ground.  I wouldn’t have known the property was visited continually by a bobcat two winters ago, or that there was a bear to track, were it not for the snow that […]

Death in the Woods.

17-Sep-13

http://dardogallettostudios.com/blog/2015/04/15/the-extraordinary-guillermina-quiroga-april-25-26-june-6-7/ On Sunday, I was sitting in a chair outside in front of my house, enjoying the evening. It was around 7 p.m. and just beginning to be dark. The crickets were singing, but slowly: it was a cool evening. And then I heard him, and knew immediately, as I always do, that it was the […]

The Golden Spruce and our Forests.

19-Apr-13

A friend recently lent me a book and I repaid him by reading it. The book, The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, is about an unusual Sitka spruce, several hundred years old, which had golden needles in place of the usual green ones. Golden foliage is an odd but regularly occurring plant mutation, highly prized […]

A Visitor.

28-Jun-12

I heard a crashing sound yesterday – some beast knocking over a plank of wood – and I quickly ventured outside to take a look.  There had been some bear activity earlier that very day.  This however was a deer, who had been grazing near where I had some dimensional lumber standing.  Though the plank […]

The Sound of a Bear.

04-Jul-11

It rained most of the day yesterday, and a guest and I came out of the cabin as the skies cleared in the early evening.  As we were working putting down a bark-mulch in the garden, we heard a large animal moving through the forest – the snapping of a twig, and the swishing of […]

More Superlative Weather.

20-Mar-10

We are having weather which is more usual to April, in March; it has been so warm and pleasant, it feels like a great gift.  Everyone is in a good mood.  On my way down here my neighbors were sitting on deck chairs on their lawn – and raised their hands to me in complacent […]

Letting the pets out…

11-Jan-10

… for a stroll on a winter morning. The ever-tame Wildcat Mountain deer.