Must be Friday & coots: Ramble with the Lady
Back downtown this morning, the sign in front of Station Street Pub caught my eye: "Cod, perch, tilapia, shrimp." Must be Friday. And yes...
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Dale Bowman
- Apr 9, 2016
- 2 min
Pennsylvania Dutch, onion snow & beauty: Ramble with the Lady
I found Lady quite beautiful this morning against the background of the onion snow, which blew down hard and fast last night. And the...
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Dale Bowman
- Mar 22, 2016
- 2 min
Daniel Boone @ dawn: Ramble with the Lady
The runner turned the corner ahead of us in the predawn, then swung north across the side rail separating town from the wildness of the...
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Dale Bowman
- Mar 11, 2016
- 2 min
Oo-eek & UNIKII: Ramble with the Lady
Squabbling robins barrel rolled through the barely budding brush by the side rail, formerly a trail above the south old clay pit Sounded...
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Dale Bowman
- Feb 7, 2016
- 2 min
Geese on ice & Stray Casts: Ramble with the Lady
Changes come, inevitably. Changes always come with a push-pull: a push to reach the new, a pull back to the famiiar. Thought of that this...
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Dale Bowman
- Jan 1, 2016
- 3 min
Ice & party hats: Ramble with the Lady
As Lady and I looked at the ice forned overnight in the protected southeast corner of the south old clay pit, it occured to me that we...
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Dale Bowman
- Dec 10, 2015
- 2 min
Time: Ramble with the Lady
When I find it is a week or more between Rambles, I know I am too busy. Tis the season for that. Between hunting--goose, duck, deer--and...
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Dale Bowman
- Nov 23, 2015
- 2 min
Just an excitable dog: Ramble with the Lady
Lady draws inspiration from the snow. When I took her out the first time on Saturday in the snow, she literally leaped around and twirled...
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Dale Bowman
- Nov 12, 2015
- 2 min
What wind blew in: Ramble with the Lady
A crow labored into the wind. And I mean labored. It was flying west across the north old clay pit. As Lady, our family's mutt, and I...
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Dale Bowman
- Oct 30, 2015
- 3 min
The rut & Nathaniel Rateliff: Ramble with the Lady
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats came on last night as I swung to take one of my back-way deer routes. I've had a deer route almost...
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Dale Bowman
- Oct 20, 2015
- 2 min
Hedge-apple bowling: Ramble with the Lady
Time to take our youngest boy and his buds hedge-apple bowling. Dozens of hedge apples fell since yesterday on the east side of the south...
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Dale Bowman
- Oct 16, 2015
- 3 min
Contrasting styles, the edge: Ramble with the Lady
The pre-dawn stripped red and rainbow colors across the sky as Lady and I rambled on down the alley behind the bus barn, adding hints of...
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Dale Bowman
- Oct 7, 2015
- 2 min
Red-bellied woodpecker & other mysteries: Ramble with the Lady
Red-bellied woodpecker, black squirrels and yellow light hole. Colors of our morning. Yesterday, a strange bird called from the top our...
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Dale Bowman
- Sep 30, 2015
- 2 min
Edging out darkness: Ramble with the Lady
Astonishing bright for being dark when Lady and I stepped off this morning. Then I figured out why, the supermoon, just waning off that...
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Dale Bowman
- Sep 21, 2015
- 2 min
Shushing: Ramble with the Lady
First time I met Joel Greenberg, years ago, he started ``shushing'' next to some thickets in Chicago's North Shore before dawn. Thought...
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Dale Bowman
- Sep 14, 2015
- 2 min
Dawn of machinery: Ramble with the Lady
I understand there are differences in how people want their wild, natural or outdoors spaces. That thought was pounded home again this...
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Dale Bowman
- Jul 24, 2015
- 2 min
Frog lines & spritzing geese: Ramble with the Lady
The scum thickens, now that the historic rains of June and July seemed to have finally moved out, on the town pond. Apparently, I am not...
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Dale Bowman
- Jul 12, 2015
- 3 min
Water & connections: Ramble with the Lady
Oh, trust me, I will eventually get back to the jackasses that left the bait box. But let's start off more righteously on a Sunday...
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Dale Bowman
- Jun 20, 2015
- 3 min
R.D. Laing & sign of the vulture: Ramble with the Lady
A turkey vulture--those slow-flapping, utterly ugle birds of carrion--of all things flapped off low overhead this morning as Lady and I...
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Dale Bowman
- Jun 8, 2015
- 2 min
Moments to savor: Ramble with the Lady
As, Lady and I rambled off this morning, I was expecting to see more storm damage than we did. But there was not that much, just one...
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