one with the buffalo on the Canadian plains
Softly creeping down the old wooden steps to the lobby for morning coffee, I catch a glimpse of brilliant light...
outdoor adventures
on the road to the most photographed hotel in the world
My GPS indicates that it will take about two hours to drive from Lake McDonald in West Glacier, over the...
Catharsis at Glacier
Our family went on vacation a few years back to Glacier National Park. My sister was killed a few months...
Over rivers & through woods
"Are you a psychopath or a sociopath?""Do you really want to know?""I want to know if you are going to...
a day at the Roxborough
"a brontosaurus" "and that one there?" "a whole row of planes..." A simple conversation between a boy and his father,...
Lord Calvert Springs
Lord Calvert Springs will forever be synonymous with the man I only knew as Grandpa Leo. A man who wasn't...
in The Swell
I first heard "licensed to ill" when I was around 14, listening to it on my friend's walkman in the...
The Phoenix Foundation
Frackity Frack, there is no looking back... He feels the heavy weight of despair upon slumped shoulders. Gravity is slowly...
Giant lillypads, double rainbows & and other ponderous musings…
Have you caught the glint of a winter's sun dancing on foreign waters, and felt old spirits in your soul?...
the Green Waters of Mother Earth
The hairs on my arms stood at full attention as the skiff came toward us. Electricity was in the atmosphere,...
The Aqua
“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”― Ernest Hemingway, The Old...
inside Earth’s depths…
A lone hawk swoops down out of the thick fog, its giant wingspan floating across my windshield, then disappears back...