After a nice night overlooking…
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just driving around... and drawing
JUST DRIVING AROUND... AND DRAWING
The week before Christmas had been haunted in Mississippi. I spent the first night in an RV ghost town. Grand Gulf was once, briefly — “when cotton was king” — with Natchez and Vicksburg, one of…
JUST DRIVING AROUND... AND DRAWING
I’m sitting next to a flat field near Lake Arthur, Louisiana. Either they’re growing water or rice. There’s water everywhere, which is what you would expect of Louisiana, but there's always more…
JUST DRIVING AROUND... AND DRAWING
When I crossed the bridge from Memphis into Arkansas it was different. The rolling white fenced pastures of Tennessee gave way low lying flat fields of a river delta. The highest elevations were…
Just driving around... and drawing
As a travel entertainment I’m…
Just driving around... and drawing
If there’s a state with…
Just driving around... and drawing
I…
Just driving around... and drawing
When I’m asked, “Where are you headed? Do you need any help“ Or, “What are you doing?” My default answer has become, “Just driving around … and drawing.” So that’s what I…
Fish Soup
My friend, John, was out in his field yesterday on snowshoes working up his arm strength, casting his heavy tarpon rod. He will meet his son, Jessie, later this month in the mangrove…
I think there is money being made in Maine by offering bear hunts. That's what's being protected
Why is a black bear different from a brook trout?
Too many hours of casting with a fly rod had my right arm feeling dead by…
Fish Soup
“Giant, toxic goldfish in the Muck ....” As a fisherman, that line at Penobscot Bay Pilot caught my attention. Wow, now we're talking.…
Fish Soup
There they sat at two tables pushed together in the center of the dining room of the only breakfast place in Ashton, Idaho.
Ron and I are fishing our way home to Maine from California and we…
Fish Soup
It's snowing outside. It's April. I'm sitting in front of my computer with a cowboy hat on, in Belfast, Maine. I'm trying to get used to it. The truth is, thanks to eBay, I now own two…
Where would YOU go if your wife told you to fish your way home from California?
Help. Help is a funny thing when it comes to fishing. If I’m doing the Sunday crossword puzzle I don’t turn to the answer page first and then just go fill in the puzzle. There…
A little silver bell rings in my head when I think of fish chowder. My brain starts to drool and I am in the west of Ireland. Our vacation there turned into a chowder-tasting…
