FIELD NOTE No. 025

We spend money to avoid chores, then spend our weekends looking for something meaningful to do with our hands. Maybe the work was part of the pleasure all along.

FIELD NOTE No. 024

Someday you might miss bitching about getting the boat out.

FIELD NOTE No. 023

Sixteen feet gives you a different view of the woods. Four quiet hours gives you a different view of yourself.

FIELD NOTE 022

While you were busy becoming somebody, somebody else was watching it happen. Memory was never entirely yours.

FIELD NOTE 021

The outdoors doesn’t have to be somewhere else. Sometimes it’s just Tuesday.

FIELD NOTE 020

Most of hunting happens long before the moment anyone notices. It’s learning a place well enough to understand why something else wants to be there.

FIELD NOTE 019

You can scout a place for ten hours and still have no greater claim to it than the guy who walked in that morning.

FIELD NOTE 018

On a perfect August afternoon, it’s easy to forget what this water is capable of.

FIELD NOTE 017

Sometimes we don’t notice what we’ve lost until we find it again.

FIELD NOTE 016

Not every story is written by the landscape.

FIELD NOTE 015

When the safest place for a canoe is under water.

FIELD NOTE 011

Most people pack clothes first.

Fishermen pack hope.