Outdoorsy Sage Gifts

A daily rubdown with a beard brush will wrangle awkward bristles and train them downwards...

'Unbelievable: My cowboy expects me to drop everything and come running when he whistles...'

"I think I've figured out why we can't find the marina."

Odd Angles,a monthly strip on coarse angling.

Academics At The Beach: The Old Man And The Sea

"For the last time, I’m not Bigfoot — I’m Larry from Vermont!"

Hacking through ice in order to fish

Golfer mistakes a hen's egg for his golf ball.

'I don't think of my skin as saggy...I think of it as relaxed-fit!'

Shore fishing requires threading the needle.

"Hel-l-l-o-o-o-o Summer!"

"Let's see now - have we got everything?"

'Yes sir, Thoreau had the right idea.'

Just think of meditation as "mental floss." (Published previously on 3/17/2006.)

Ducks trying to guess what a man is quacking.

Mr. Briggs' Adventures in the Highlands, part 8.

"Ralph - you'd play better golf if you had your eyes checked."

A fisherman carries a rainbow trout.

The chairman's boat springs a leak: 'Just keep bailing and never mind the wisecracks.'

"Throw a stick, throw a ball, take a walk....are you my dog or my personal trainer?"

'Well, let's head home, they've already left.'

Best Pals

'If the voice of Nature should say ‘Yo!', it behooveth the Yoee to listen up.'

'No, even I don't know the secret of golf.'

Vernal Pond: Here today. . . gone tomorrow.

Captain Thomas Coram.

"Read me back the minutes from the last dip."

Just north of the rainforest: the mostly-sunny-with-a-30%-chance-of-rainforest

Bird in sunglasses balancing on a stick.

'Standing around the grill is half the fun. Getting drunk is the other.'

'Found it ... Good heavens! It's the size of a soccer ball!..'

Winter is an Adventure.

Bear watching a man trying to fish bear style.

"Always stay rooted, or you'll turn into a tumbleweed..."

'That's not whitewash....that's detergent!'