Though the lovely woods are dark and deep, even the campers are caught up in the holiday spirit. Millie and I hope for you that your Christmas was even half…
Continue readingCaddo Lake State Park
Millie and I are encamped at Sawmill Pond, Caddo Lake State Park. We’ll over-winter here as hosts beside the most beguiling lakeside Park in Texas.
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After 7 months in Pennsylvania and some weeks traveling, I’m back with the Motopeeps for Friday Pie Day at Downtown D’lites on Kilgore. Glenn, Skip, me, Mark. Barry was absent,…
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A travel haikuurged by good friend James Draper:You can, just do you Near Memphis in rainDodging dead deer and truck tiresClutt’ring up my lane
Continue readingSo long, Willow Bay friends
BIll and Barb are regulars here, driving up from Blairsville, PA for a 3-day weekend as often as possible. Knowing this is the last weekend of my season, they piled…
Continue readingNearing the season’s end
By the end of every summer at Allegheny Reservoir, the insatiable demands of a power plant downstream have outpaced the Pennsylvania rain. Happily, the barren bottom of Willow Bay becomes…
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Wet and windy weather this week threatens the tenuous hold of colorful elm, aspen, maple, and birch leaves. The grass remains green, the asters still bloom but the trees know…
Continue readingCheering for the underdog
In the panoply of fall foliage, the aspen in the west and the maple in the east collect all the plaudits. The aspen blankets whole mountainsides in golden cascades. The…
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A-la Johnny Appleseed, Frank comes from town in September and collects hickory nuts from beneath the hickory trees that populate Willow Bay Recreation Area and the Allegheny National Forest. He…
Continue readingRed shirt school of photography
Some of you may have been National Geographic magazine devotees decades ago as I was. I’m proud to say I once owned at least one copy of every issue from…
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