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  • Vacations

    Last week I spent five days on the North Shore of Lake Superior with most of my family, a vacation I had been looking forward to for a long time. It was a time to fish, hike, and just hang out on the rocks right in front of our rented vacation home. Vacationing on the… Read more

  • THROWBACK THURSDAY: On Broad Horizons and Big Sky

    Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 31, 2011. Here in the North Country, the climatological pendulum we live under has reached the longest and hottest end of its summer arc. Our minds are on things of summer: cold beer,… Read more

  • FRIDAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Stephen Jones on Silence

    During my first few visits [to the Sand Hills of Nebraska] I experienced a persistent ringing in the ears as my hearing adjusted to the absence of background noise-the roar of cars, airplanes, and machinery that has become a subliminal part of our daily lives. – Jones, Stephen R.. The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal. Read more