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I’ve lived a wild life

- what I’ve earned, I’ve spent.

I’ve paid what I owed

and lost what I’ve lent.

I’ve loved a good woman

and if that should end,

I’ll get a good dog

and he’ll be my best friend.

Anonymous Cowboy Ditty

Nicholai Hel

July 31st, 1993   -   March 8th, 2008

May his Soul enjoy Eternal Rest

(for he was loved by many)

among the Heavenly Valleys' Streams

with Rising Trout aplenty!

from a man made better by him

March 9, 2008

Colorado

Heavenly

Heaven's Gate

Everything in Nature

contains all the powers of Nature. 

Everything

is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

Wall Flowers at the Mushroom Festival

In the Midst of a Passing Cloud

Lord of the far horizons,

Give us the eyes to see

Over the verge of the sundown,

The beauty that is to be.

Bliss Carman, 1861 - 1929

Lord of the Far Horizons.  Stanza I

Far Horizons, Telluride

Michigan

The Upper Falls

No angler merely watches nature in a passive way. 

He enters into its very existence.

John Bailey, Reflections on the Water's Edge (N.D.)

Brown Trout Blues

Blue Gill Brown

Angling may be said to be so like mathematics

that it can never fully be learnt...

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653)

Sweet September

One Fine Instrument

E=1/2mv-squared

Fortunately

this is translatable.

It means:

If a trout doubles the speed with which he darts up to a fly,

he is putting out four times the amount of energy.

J. W. Dunne, Sunshine and the Dry Fly (1924)

Beaver Pond of the Jordan River Valley

Awaiting Rain on the Sunset Trail

Awakening Wood

I went to the woods because

I wished to live deliberately,

to front only the essential facts of life,

and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,

and not,

when I came to die,

discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Sand Flow on the Sunset Trail

Full Bloom Shroom

Betrothed

Communion

These are the joys of the open road -

For him who travels without a load.

Bliss Carman, The Joys of the Road

Lily Pads in Autumn

Evening Reflections, Sunrise Side, Torch Lake

Manitou View

Let me go where'er I will,

I hear a sky-born music still.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Fragments

1803 - 1882

Last Rites, Torch Lake

Northwest Ontario

A Place for Peace Offering

"Live each season as it passes;

breathe the air,

drink the drink,

taste the fruit,

and resign yourself to the influences of each."

Henry David Thoreau

Elements

Ojibwa Pictographs, Circa 1600 AD

I hear beyond the range of sound,

I see beyond the range of sight,

New earths and skies and seas around,

And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration.  Stanza 7

September Sunset on Mijinemungshing

Rock Island Reflections I

Rock Island Reflections II

Clouds Over Loganberry

Fickle Weather on Loganberry

Beaver in Queue

Leaving Kashabowie

Time is but the stream

I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

Birthday Brookie

Gathering of Tiger Swallowtails

"Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished."

Lao Tzu

A Good Day for Pike on the Fly

Morning Reflections on Wapikaimaski

Boy Meets Girl

Yosemite

Cascade Creek

Bridal Veil Creek

Go where he will,

the wise man is at home,

His hearth the earth,

- his hall the azure dome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Wood-Notes. I, 3

Good Timber in Vernal Falls Mist

Sunset in Yosemite

Florida

Eye On You

American Brown Pelicans

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