"Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to the soul" -John Muir
Warmth It has been a long winter in the Northwoods this year. The temperatures have been cool for the duration of the spring and the lakes are locked in with ice. Some reports suggest lakes in northern Minnesota have 50″ of ice on them still. Yesterday in Minnesota we were pounded with another blizzard dropping … Continue reading Warmth
Swamps and Wetlands “My temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum… I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from … Continue reading Swamps and Wetlands
The Forest After having been away for a while, I wanted to share an assortment of photographs I have taken over the past few years that show the many aspects of the wilderness of the northwoods. The forest here takes on many shapes, colors, and forms which is part of the reason I enjoy roaming … Continue reading The Forest
The Joy of Living “The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of present travel…through the northern forests, the home of the giant moose, the forests of fragrant and murmuring life in summer, the iron-bound and melancholy of winter. The … Continue reading The Joy of Living
The Last Flicker of Fall Fall has come and past in the Northwoods. Most of the wild places in the north are now silent, covered in layers of snow and ice. Fall is a time of exquisite beauty as the colored leaves transform even the most mundane of landscapes into something extraordinary. Undoubtedly, it is … Continue reading The Last Flicker of Fall
When Timber Makes One Still 