Category: outdoors

  • It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Summer has flown by, rich in big moments for my family — love and death and tenderness. And all around us, as always, the great cacophony of the world. Autumn’s coming, chill mornings, heavier skies. Before letting summer go I want to savor a few moments, not the big…

  • Sometime last March, a few Eugene Oregon folks decided to reconnect with their fellow citizens by walking across the country. Thousands of miles, one step at a time, they figured it would be a way to bridge the us-and-them divide. They called their effort Liberty Walks. They made a web site. They invited support via…

  • In restrospect, I wish I’d brought my binoculars to Sweden, because we stumbled upon so many birds I’d never seen before and some I’d never heard of. The hooded crow stopped me dead in my tracks. I mean, you know it’s some kinda corvid, just from its shape. But the two-tone coloring, light gray and…