There’s something to the cool night air. At this season of life, around 10-11 pm each evening, I walk out … Continue reading Taking Out the Dogs at Bedtime

If you go out into the places shunned by the masses, away from where concrete and creeping subdivisions and fast … Continue reading The Call Back

On cold winter days lit with bright sunshine I like to take long walks in the bare-branched woods of our … Continue reading Trilliums

Limbs are a by-product of orchards and brush piles, a by-product of limbs. All three have their advantages. Orchards and … Continue reading Filling The Gaps

The last time I saw Drivin N’ Cryin play live was at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on the day … Continue reading Catch The Wind

I recently read an article which proposed to list the greatest tools in the history of the world. There was … Continue reading Pocket Knives

During years in which the pecan trees bear heavy loads, the nuts grow large in size and weight until gravity … Continue reading Hauling Wagons

Long before the longleaf pine, long before the wiregrass, before the bobwhite quail, or the sea of cotton, the shoreline … Continue reading The Gnat Line

It’s mid-September. The shucks of the earliest maturing pecan variety—‘Pawnee’—are beginning to open. I’ve monitored the nut’s maturity closely since … Continue reading Crows

There’s an old road that parallels the Flint River at the north end of Lake Blackshear among the fields, pines, … Continue reading The Cabin Road