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Great trip. Lovely family. I’ll write more when I get back from the Northeast. Two weeks of paddling! Respectfully and somewhat exhaustedly submitted, Canoelover P.S. Of course I saw odes. Here’s a fairly rare Gomphus graslinellus, a Pronghorn Clubtail. The … Continue reading →

…unless we get a good connection somewhere, which is unlikely. We’ll be off the grid until next Saturday, then I’m gone another five days on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The picture above has nothing to do with this. But … Continue reading →

…so I hope you understand the anguish that tormented my soul while my computer sat at Computer Medics getting a new motherboard and processor. Here he is, a lovely Libellula saturata, a Flame Skimmer. What I learned last week: 1) … Continue reading →

…and here’s proof. More to come as I have time. It’s not like time stopped when the laptop went into a coma. I still did stuff. Took pictures of stuff. Lived life to its fullest. The bad news: $500.00 poorer. … Continue reading →

Sorry, no blogs for a while. Dead laptop. $500 dead. And the injury added to the insult are as follows: 1) My particular laptop has a hard drive that only fits in that kind of laptop, so I can’t even … Continue reading →

Scene: A corn stand. I am buying Wisconsin’s bounty. Corn, tomatos, melon, cukes, etc. [Car drives up, window down] Amazingly attractive young man: “Mah-dee-zon!” Cute farm girl selling corn: “What?” AAYM: “Mah-dee-zon! We needing to go…” CFGSC: “You’re in Madison.” … Continue reading →

I get my monthly SGB (Sporting Goods Business) magazine and in the back near the cheap seats is a section on Twitters and Bloggers to watch. I quote: “The writer of Canoe Lover (sic) owns a canoe and kayak shop … Continue reading →

“The ego is not master in its own house.” — Sigmund Freud Once in a while I wax philosophical. It’s usually when I need to process something by writing it, which is how I work best. The fun part is … Continue reading →

After a week out of town, and having spotted one odonate in Utah (it looked thirsty), it was nice to come home to a decent little crowd of odes. The vegetation mats offer a nice perching place for the Eastern … Continue reading →

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” Some people, indeed, many people create for themselves an on-line persona that is markedly … Continue reading →