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While kayaks might be a familiar site on rooftops how many of them are "nice" kayaks? Like a nice touring model or playboat rather than...

Most folks don't even know solo canoes exist, and since they paddle solo a kayak is the obvious choice. Also, canoing is more a family...

Yeah, I think it's a latitude thing. Even here in Maine the canoes only outnumber the kayaks around 44-45 degrees north (which happens...

I would wait until he's been in the boat for a bit, and then ask.

dang. We have multiflora rose in the yard. One of my favorites. But, it will have to go on the hit list I guess. Bummer.

Car is facing the wrong way.

I have stumbled through what I can only describe as a nest of ticks. Hundreds it seemed like. Tiny ones. Ick.

Here's the local pileated woodpecker's favorite tree.

Nope, but I bet it would. Following up on my post, when it got really loud I would often go out with a slingshot/wrist rocket and shoot...

When I was in grad school in Florida, my bedroom was under a large live oak. During the fall, squirrels would start eating acorns at...

We have similar trees here but for the opposite reason. This is (was) the prairie so trees were few and they were widely spaced. The Bur...

Right! Can you imagine the forests that yielded the original roof beams for Notre Dame cathedral? They were one piece! After the fire...

I stand corrected on my wolf trees as throwbacks to old growth: “Wolf trees are testaments to a property’s former life in agriculture...

Wolf trees. Of whatever species they happen to be. Because they are big, and are a throwback to before the forests were logged.

As you know, I recently acquired a new-to-me NW Solo canoe. The purchase was a bit of a surprise as I had been combing the online ads...