We had arrived home after our vacation when we first saw it standing on the western horizon; a shaft of light rising skyward from where the sun had just set. The Driftless area, with a topography sculpted from earth by water over time, generally needs no further...
While the media tends to focus on the debilitating effects of flooding – and there are many – the villages and cities along the river in Driftless Wisconsin remain open for business. For example, while “Main Street” – a residential street running along the...
The regal gathering has the feel of a formal affair, with the proud birds dressed in white-feathered headdresses and tails befitting royal heads of state. The occasion for this stately dinner – a farmer has spread fish remains on his cornfield for spring planting –...
I experienced that “new” feeling once. I was returning from a “vacation” in Florida, where bumper-to-bump traffic was the norm and every time you turned around, someone was standing in your shoes. After fighting airport crowds and searching the airport ramp for my...
