Can-picker, netter, croaker, invader: Ramble with the Lady
The can-picker saw me coming this morning and ducked behind a car on his old bike. I don't know why, because I think picking cans is...
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Dale Bowman
- May 8, 2016
- 3 min
Squirrels on wire, D-Linemen geese, dueling woodpeckers: Ramble with the Lady
How do you say why squirrels run down wires? That thought that came again this morning when Lady began tracking not one but two gray...
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Dale Bowman
- May 5, 2016
- 3 min
What's wrong with this picture (meaning of May): Ramble with the Lady
Barreling down a back road on Sunday, I had to slam on the brakes suddenly. Several stalks of wild asparagus poked vividly above the...
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Dale Bowman
- Apr 23, 2016
- 2 min
Goslings & morels: Ramble with the Lady
Canada geese raised such a racket of honking on the south shore of the north old clay pit that I knew I would find goslings between at...
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Dale Bowman
- Apr 17, 2016
- 3 min
Red fox beauty tops astonishing morning: Ramble with the Lady
The red fox stalking mice or voles in the weeds growing under the front row of the old weathered bleachers registered in some part of my...
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Dale Bowman
- Apr 16, 2016
- 3 min
Salvation, coots & Jamie Coots: Ramble with the Lady
Jeanie Chung and I used to both work the agate desk for the Sun-Times years ago. Both of us did some writing on preps sports, too. I...
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Dale Bowman
- Apr 15, 2016
- 3 min
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 11, 2016
- 3 min
Theories of the Viceroy of Verbiage: Ramble with the Lady
I have theories. I know that may come as a shock, but I do. Many of them. With the rains yesterday and last night, I expected to stuff...
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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 28, 2016
- 3 min
Crochety, crappie, serendipity & Eurasian collared-doves: Ramble with the Lady
Three Eurasian collared-doves croaked in the yards by the decorative fruit trees a block north as Lady and I rambled off this morning....
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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
- Mar 6, 2016
- 3 min
Door Morning: Ramble with the Lady
No, I don't mean Door County. Though if my wife or I could find full-time, year-round work, I think we would be there. Or at least think...
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Dale Bowman
- Feb 27, 2016
- 2 min
Buffleheads & favorites: Ramble with the Lady
A pair of buffleheads bobbed on the north old clay pit this morning. Just them. Well, a pair of Canada geese were on the west shoreline....
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Dale Bowman
- Feb 21, 2016
- 2 min
Trilling red-wings & hilarity of geese: Ramble with the Lady
So a pair of geese floated on the nearly completely open north old clay pit this morning. I am pretty sure they are the pair that nests...
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Dale Bowman
- Feb 16, 2016
- 3 min
Bonnie Raitt & snow: Ramble with the Lady
I made it home from Stray Casts practice last night in time to catch the end of the Grammys, notably in time for the tribute to the late...
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Dale Bowman
- Jan 7, 2016
- 2 min
Stray Casts, dawn, Violent Femmes: Ramble with the Lady
Let me explain. Partially why I rambled off late enough this morning with Lady to catch a spectacular dawn. And partially explain why the...
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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 18, 2015
- 2 min
Lesson in goose behavior: Ramble with the Lady
This morning was a lesson for anybody who has ever hunted geese. The west-southwest winds wafted the honking of geese on the lake to the...
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Dale Bowman
- Dec 15, 2015
- 2 min
O Tannenbaum & picking worms: Ramble with the Lady
For the third morning in a row, I picked earthworms and night crawlers on the morning ramble with Lady, our family's mutt. That would be...
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Dale Bowman
- Dec 13, 2015
- 2 min
Primal art, picking worms: Ramble with the Lady
The first earthworm stretched across the street a block north by the house on the corner with the bur oaks. To all my bait shop friends,...
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