The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part Three – The End
...The island was covered in trees and the grass was over 3 feet tall. I tried moving through the grass fast only to start tripping on all the logs and…
The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part Two
...All week the weather forecast was beginning to sound a lot like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Every day there had been a call for severe storms. Damaging winds, torrential…
The Summer Solstice Tried to Kill Me – Part One
To be fair to Mother Nature, she doesn't care if we live or die. We're not even a blip on her radar, just another organism on her planet. She goes…
Summer Solstice
Around 10 years ago, possibly less, I decided to go out fishing the whole day on the longest day of the year. This year on June 21st, sunrise is 5:20…
Happy Father’s Day to Me
The plan was to spend Saturday with my oldest daughter down along the Fox River at Blues on the Fox in Aurora. Over the past 40 years I've seen a…
Before the Rains Came
You can't beat being able to stop along the river on the way home after a long commute. The last couple of hours of the day have always been my…
Thunder on the Fox
I need to start paying a little more attention. I find things like this an abuse to a river. Especially a river like the Fox that once upon a time…
Do as I say, Not as I do
When the Fox River is flowing above 4,000 cubic feet per second, I don't recommend that anyone go in the water unless they know the water when it's flowing at…
Too Hot to Wander, Too High to Fish
Within 60 seconds of leaving my house there are nothing but farm fields for as far as you could see. That's one of the reasons I'm reluctant to move away…