From across the room, the sound comes though the door, along the face of the window and down from the ceiling. Rain sings along the street out front. The calla lilies out front fill with the water beading up along their silky white bloom. Across the hills, tendrils of fog waft upward from the forest [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spring’
One last time?
Posted in Weather, tagged spring, Weather on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spring Wildflowers
Posted in Steelhead Sanity, tagged spring, wildflowers on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A recent day afield…
Springtime on the River
Posted in Steelhead Sanity, tagged spring on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few photos from the past few days. With a setting like this, fickle fishing is not really a concern.
Thirty minutes of timeless water
Posted in Steelhead Sanity, tagged dry fly, rivers, spring on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m sitting next to the classroom window on the third floor. From this vantage point I can see how the wind is faring. I pretend to pay attention to the instructor, occasionally nodding in agreement at some unheard point of emphasis. By two o’clock, the breeze is waning, the flagging branches of the trees below [...]
Wind (a fishing report – kind of)
Posted in Weather, tagged dry fly, spring, Weather on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The oak woodlands are bright green with the beginnings of wildflower carpets across the sunlit hillsides. Along the river, the purple lupine and golden poppies celebrate the new sun. This could be the quintessential spring scene except for one thing: the wind. I saw the warnings – gusts up to 40 mph – on the [...]
Spring bike rides
Posted in Weather, tagged spring, Weather on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The best way to see Spring here in town is on a bike. The last few days of March still might bite with a hint of winter, but the sun shines higher now and a familiar time is once again at hand. These early days are as much about the hope of Spring [...]
