nature – Page 3 – Life Along The River

After the Snowy Day

When they wake in the morning the fire has died and frost covers the window panes. New snow blankets the ground outside. The woman and her husband and the boy push themselves out of bed. The man makes a fire while she boils water for breakfast. They drink coffee and hot chocolate, wrapping their hands around…

Grouse

It’s the hard business of being that gets to me. That’s what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about the way you get worn down. The day in and out of work. Stumbling at the end of a day in the woods, or no woods, the ones cut down and me thrashing through the dog hair…

Apples

I found the bear one fall day as clouds slouched up the valley, pushed by an incoming storm. Crows flapped in the alders and before I could reason the oddness of so many, the dog was off and tearing into whatever was there below the trees. I shouldn’t say I found the bear. I’d already heard rumors…