PaddlingPitt

A fairly long posting here, for May 25, one of the very best days, as in "mesmerizing" of our entire winter sojourn. We sat outside...

I was on a solo paddling trip this past summer in the Georgian Bay. It was early morning on a foggy day and the water was like glass...

Kathleen and I paddled the Seal River in northern Manitoba in 1997. From the mouth of the Seal River on Hudson Bay, we took this image...

I was on the shore of Lake Champlain on Grand Isle many years ago (20 or so) and thought I was having some sort of hallucinatory event...

I love the sound of ice groaning and cracking and reverberating. Thanks for bring that up it definitely is one of those mesmerizing...

One clear and crisp fall night I was walking from my car to the house and heard a strange bird call that made me stop. It wasn't quite...

I was in Colorado Springs. Amazing sunset that day. Everybody noticed, and everyone went outside to watch it. My frat had roof access...

Watching an enormous bird flock had me mesmerized in 2017. I couldn’t turn away. Lake paddling in the Adirondaks in the fall did it...

We enjoyed walking on the lake ice during our winter sojourn. But we were ready to paddle down the Anderson River to the Arctic Coast...

I have three more mesmerizing/interesting experiences from our winter sojourn that I would like to share. Like those seeking the total...

I never heard of an upside-down rainbow, so I looked it up. It's actually a circumzenithal arc (CZA), which is caused by ice crystals in...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen stars reflected in a lake. I’m envious.

A memory that sticks in my mind is from an early October solo trip in the BWCA. I got up in the middle of the night to relieve my...

I strongly believe that I communicated with the Ravens. I practiced making their common calls. They eventually routinely replied, often...