“Just after leaving Jackson, we climbed a small hill and came round a corner which brought us into view of the stunning Teton Range. The rocky peaks of the mountains look as if the crust of the earth, wanting to enjoy the beauty of the lakes and valleys of the area, burst through the thin skin of grass and stood towering over the land in silent observation.”
El Toro, on his epic journey
This guy really gets it:
“A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
I took a holiday from the BS this weekend, so I did not see Loopy’s quote from that great American, Woody Guthrie, until this morning. Here is another, non-holiday-weekend bit of advice from Woody Guthrie: “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”
“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment”
~ Heywood Broun
As Mr. Bimble knows after last weekend, our tiny, densely populated little state still has a lot of opportunities to get fatigued and lost “in the wilderness”. This despite the fact that we do not have as much as a square mile of national park or national forest. [Read more…] about Keep It Wild, Don’t “Play it Safe”
Last Saturday, June 4th, Branford honored Chet Bloomquist, the man who built the 28 mile long Branford (aka White Dot) Trail, READ MORE
