Trout fishing on the Farmington River in Connecticut deedsphotos

On our trip to visit my brother and his wife in Simsbury, Connecticut, last week

Farmington River Brown Trout

This brown trout was caught August 31st, 2007 at 4 pm in Halford's pool on the Farmington River, Connecticut on a number 18 curved, barbless hook emerger on a moderate retrieve. I typically fish with a 2...

Poem: crabapples

Fishing with streamers down the Boneyard, I notice a tree just felled by a beaver, its pencil-sharpened trunk points to the river. It seems a toppled Christmas tree bedizened with red globes ...

How To Tie a Caddis Fly deedsphotos

Sacred Tree Ritual

This sycamore is reputed to be the largest or second largest in America. It can be worshipped in Simsbury CT. If such pagan rituals are unfamiliar to you, children will show you how.  This tree has a way...