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Dale Bowman

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...

Dale Bowman

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...

Dale Bowman

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...

Dale Bowman

WWW Chicago outdoors: Shows, sheds, ice & warm-water options

The last couple weeks we have been doing trial runs of streaming the Stray Casts television broadcast. While we did the news and fishing...

Dale Bowman

A morel-sniffing dog? Ramble with the Lady

Yesterday, as our daughter and I cut the first morels of the year, she asked why we could not teach Lady to look for them. ``Give them to...

By Dale Bowman

Tracks & a bridge to spring: Ramble with the Lady

A morning where I had to dig the felt-lined leather boots out of the stuff piled in the mud room (back steps). The bridge to spring is...

Dale Bowman

First duck & checking off: Ramble with the Lady

The first duck since the ice came whistled off near dawn. I think it was a wood duck by the sound of it--I could not see it in the half...

Dale Bowman

Ramble with the Lady: Antics of geese, The Noble Savage & really warm ice

As the Canada goose cupped to land on the ice of the north old clay pit, I could not help but watch it land and skid. One of the things...

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Ramble with the Lady: Frolicking season & dare we say spring?

By Dale Bowman Even before we set out, Lady wanted to get out the pair of gray squirrels messing around on our front porch below the bird...