When your “old” kids, who are tall teenagers now, come back to have lunch with you, and you realize once again how much you miss getting to share in their thoughts and delightful ways all day long like you used to.
Vintage
Vintage Post–And Abram Believed God . . . .
Vintage Post–Mr. Ralph, Nature Journalist
Mr. Ralph added so much to our Corps of Discovery studies on Lewis and Clark by sharing his own nature journaling with us.
Here is a sample from his hunting journal . . . . .
Bow Season 1993
October 2
Got up at 5:00 and left house at 5:30. In my tree stand at bottom of hill by white rock at 6:00 a.m. Calm and very dark with moon in and out of clouds. 43 degrees. At 6:20 a coyote started howling one hundred yards or so up the bank. A flying squirrel landed on the back side of the tree I was in about two feet away from me. At 6:45 motion caught my eye to the right. A fisher ran along a log and then back out of sight. Wind starting to pick up a little. At 8:05 two deer ran in from the ledges way. One went up the sag. The other came in front of me and stopped twenty-five yards away. It was facing toward me and looking back on where it came. I drew back, but no shot. It ran straight toward me and under my tree, but no shot. At 8:20 a partridge walked under the apple tree behind me. At 8:30 I read Proverbs 1-3 about wisdom and how we should strive to gain more to pass it to others–children especially. Climbed out of my stand at 9:00. Went down to beaver pond and watched five beavers climb up over the dam about thirty seconds apart and about twenty feet away. 9:45 I walked along the swamp and watched eighteen ducks take off. Walked into Foreman’s field and watched three coyotes mulling around for about ten minutes. Seventy-five yards away. Back at the truck 10:25.