The Great Midwest

Susan and I just completed our Fall tour of the upper Midwest and I’m sharing here a couple of posts resulting from this expedition, posted recently on woodrisebooks.com, my new outdoors blog.

Didn’t See That Coming

Why do we put so much stock in the prognostications of the modern augurs who tell us what the future holds for us? Look at your own life and think about how little of what’s befallen you could have been forecast.

Before the Morels

And maybe it’s also all about learning to appreciate the things that aren’t morels – aren’t the most glamorous, desirable, well-publicized organisms out there, the stuff that’s often walked right past, crushed into the ground below our heels as we keep up a good pace to the morel patch, checking again today for first signs of disturbance in the thin leaf litter.

Fear Not

Overcoming fear imparts the mindset necessary to embark on adventure, to pursue purpose and to simply get the most out of life. For me, the Long March of Liberty was all an exercise in overcoming fear, whatever else it may have been.

“Wild North Country 2022 Calendar” Now Available

Cross-posted from the blog at MarchOfLiberty.com. In recent years, we’ve been putting together a full-color twelve-month calendar showcasing Cedric’s photography. Each month features vivid images captured during Cedric’s journeys through the wild north country of the United States of America. This year’s edition benefits from his walk across the United States, with landscapes and creatures […]

Findings of Fine Fauna

I’ve been living outside in Washington State, and more recently Idaho, for about six weeks, after a lifetime east of the Mississippi. There has been a lot of necessary adjustment and acclimation and there have been new animals to meet and many familiar faces among the fields, hedge rows, and forest.

Into the West

Simple Pleasures

Brook trout water remains a simple pleasure, as do the trout themselves. I could walk the mountain runs of the Alleghenies for days on end with no rod and remain content. Looking and knowing that the magical little fish are there is enough. I’ve been away too long. Too much pavement, too much […]

2019 – A Year of Exploration, Adventure and Learning

I spent much of 2019 at my workplace in the middle of Pittsburgh and in driving back and forth from across the county line. I spent a lot more time getting my new business, WikiparX.com off the ground. I’m sure I had more wasted time than I’d like to admit, I did quite a bit […]

Have a Wild 2020

Each of the last few years, Susan and I have created a calendar of my outdoors photography which I sell to fund marketing for my book. Susan has outdone herself this year (it’s mostly in her capable hands) and has created yet another inherently useful work of art – our fourth Wild North Country Calendar. […]

the dying fish

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