"Have you also learned that secret from the river, that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, or the shadow of the future." ~Herman Hesse
Haven't posted anything here since June, & I came back to find that clandestine international drug & weapons (& who knows what else) dealers & dark money laundering syndicates from foreign countries have been leaving secret messages to each other in the comment columns under the blog posts. Brilliant way to hide shit, really. And though these 'comments' are written in languages I can't understand, I suspect they are totally off-subject. I need to clean house. If anybody comes across any of these suspicious comments below older posts, please let me know.
Haven't been posting because all of my writing time has been taken up putting together Trout Spey & The Art Of The Swing, which we hope will be in print by March, barring more covid supply chain slow-downs. First release will be 100 hardcover, signed, limited editions. If you are a collector of fine angling books you may want to get on the list for one of these, the first book ever on the subject of trout spey; including a fly catalogue of over 200 color photos of swung-flies with dressings. If you'd like to get on the list for the book, let me know: columbiatrout@sbcglobal.net
brown streaked river
leafless supplicant alders
rain darkens the stones
"I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a giant river." ~Roderick Haig Brown
