The sound of the boat motor quickly faded into nothing and Rosie and I were finally surrounded by the silence of canoe country. A silence of wind rushing through pines, of water lapping against rock. Of little else. We were standing at the end of Indian Portage, a five rod carry from Sucker Lake, in [...]
It began with the dates, the recognition of a week-long window in a busy fall schedule. It would be later in the season than Rosie and I had gone before, opening up possibilities of seeing normally busy areas in a quieter time and a beautiful piece of woods near the height of fall colors, but [...]
In a few days we’ll be in the Boundary Waters and all this will be distant, more distant than memory, more distant than the city, as distant as a rocky glaciated shoreline is from a microchip. I think of those shorelines often. From the rocks at the waterline up into the thick forest that rarely [...]
This is some video I took with our digital camera while we were staying on Lake Insula in the Boundary Waters last spring. We’d been there for a few days and I think I for one was getting a little loopy. And no, that’s not how I usually talk.
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