outdoors | outdoors
Apr.09.2013
The old angler's laugh sounded like a howl. It chilled me like a wind. I remembered there were coyotes in Westchester.
“I have no favorite river,” he insisted. “Why discriminate? Like people, rivers have their own characteristics, but what kind of angler are you who doesn’t know that when you come...
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Apr.09.2013
The old angler's laugh sounded like a howl. It chilled me like a wind. I remembered there were coyotes in Westchester.
“I have no favorite river,” he insisted. “Why discriminate? Like people, rivers have their own characteristics, but what kind of angler are you who doesn’t know that when you come...
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Apr.05.2013
There have not been many days when I have not thought back to some aspect of my early childhood days; days spent largely out of doors. I didn't attend kindergarten or have any formal early-childhood learning experiences. My experiences were mainly those of a child brought up on a farm and...
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Nov.24.2012
As I got up this morning and saw that it was raining again, I was sad. Although in Israel we usually pray for rain, it meant that I couldn’t go skating in the park. Instead I decided that it was time to write about the joy of skating.
I grew up in Haifa on top of the Carmel Mountains and in my...
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Apr.26.2011
I'm currently working on revising/rewriting a suspense/thriller, but just can't seem to concentrate. I think today I wrote maybe one paragraph. I think it's Spring Fever. The weather here in Southern California is lovely. Amazing, actually. Warm, sunny with a light breeze. The birds are all...
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Nov.08.2010
"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.'"
William Hazlitt, 1778-1830, Essayist
An Arabian proverb states that he who has health has hope and he who...
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Jul.25.2010
It is one thing to walk down a shaded road far from the city with views of snow-covered mountains between the green shadow fir trees. It is another to find a perfect, black shinny, crusty pile of bear scat. With a stick we prod it gently and discover that the bear has been dinning on sedge grasses...
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Nov.18.2009
E-BooksRavenwolf Publishing releases three books in the rapidly becoming popular E-Book format..Author and publisher Pete Klein says, "Amazon with its Kindle e-book reader has made e-books respectable, affordable, portable and popular, and it is only logical and natural to respond to their...
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Apr.25.2009
I was once a believer that cats should be allowed to go outdoors if they wanted to but for the past decade or so I have held the reverse position on this issue and here is just one reason why -
Today, I dug a bullet out of the back of my cat's neck.
My cats are not allowed to go outside...
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Sep.07.2008
There are eleven different kinds of huckleberries and the varieties grow close to each other.
Some of them are sweet at different times of the season so sampling a bush before you harvest it is mandatory. The ones I like best are a shinny plum color and grow on bushes with a red tint to the leaves...
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