These days

“The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s height..”
-Coventry Kearsey Deighton Patmore

The sun shines rarely on this island.

And fantastically

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Getting there

“I’ve been on the sides deer-hunting and trout-fishing.”
-Robert Frost, The Mountain

One more deer will fill the freezer.

Then steelhead.

Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis

“Hunting the black-tail is beyond all comparison the nobler sport.”
-T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

On Thanksgiving day this year, guys all over America got together in fields to play football. Others got together to watch football.

A few of us had something to do.