Tag Archive for tag: outside
professional dilettante
Tag Archive for tag: outside
It has been an exceptionally wet summer in real life here what with the remnants of several hurricanes dumping on us here lately and all, but other than the occasional post, it’s a been a long, hot, dry summer here. That’s par for the course around here, though. I abandoned anything like regular posting years [...]
I have my own waxing/waning interest in outdoor activities, but this study about the decline in participation in outdoor activities definitely shows a trend I’d rather see going the other way. I hope I can instill some love of the Great Outdoors in The Boy.
As Tom Chandler points out, today is the birthday of Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang which Chandler calls “a groundbreaking novel about four people who sabotage development projects in the desert wilderness,” though I think it’s more about the frustration of the individual in the face of developers destroying our natural places [...]
“Real-time measurements of water movement taken Wednesday showed a volume of 30 cubic feet per second at the Arkansas 65 bridge. David Mott of the National Park Service said the minimum flow ever recorded for that date was 30 cubic feet per second.” [from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition] Damn. The Buffalo is one of [...]
All of a sudden, I was slammed by a case of Spring Fever yesterday. I’m twitchy (and I mean more than usual) and feeling the need to be either (a) sitting on my patio with a good book and a cold beer or (b) standing in the middle of a rushing Ozark stream, casting a [...]
