Trails have always intrigued me,
from the days when I was a kid following a cow path a half-mile up the lane
back of the barn, to today, when I follow the several trails at my farm.
I recently wrote:
When at my
farm, I often follow my network of trails through the woods, along the flats
and down the hills and around the many twists and turns.
A trail is
not for hurrying. Despite how familiar
the trail is to me now, there is always something new to see or hear as I wind
my way along. There are old friends: a
deer bounding in front of me, the giant oak trees I dearly love, the views
across the ponds, where I often spot a mallard or a wood duck or a family of
Canada geese.
As the
seasons change, the views from the trails change, too, from the budding of the
trees and the greening of the grass in spring to the rainbow of colors in fall
to the naked maples in winter.
Small side trails
here and there lead to special views: a close-up look at the ponds; a trip to
the prairie restoration. Traveling my
trails, which I regularly do, is one of the joys of my life.
Excerpted from Whispers
and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir
The Old Timer
Says: Take time to travel a trail,
and take your time when you do it.
ANNOUNCEMENT: A second Clearing Writing Class is scheduled
for Friday, October 28. Call 920-854-4088 to Register.
Upcoming Events:
July 19, 11:00 a.m., Farm
Technology Days, Snudden Farms, Lake Geneva, Walworth County. History of
Wisconsin Agriculture.
August 9, 6:30 p.m. Winnebago
County Historical Society. Oshkosh
Library. History of Wisconsin
Agriculture.
August 12, 9-4, Writing Workshop,
The Clearing, Door County. (Filled)
August 20, 10:30-11:30 am. Waupaca Annual Arts on the Square. Story telling.
August 22, 7:00 p.m., Twin Cities
Public TV. The Land With Jerry Apps.
August 30, 7:00 p.m. Milwaukee
Public TV. The Land With Jerry Apps
Purchase Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial
Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin (a fundraiser for them):
The
library now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs:
Emmy Winner, A
Farm Winter with Jerry Apps (based
on The Quiet Season book.)
Jerry Apps a Farm Story (based on Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm books.)
The Land with Jerry Apps, (based on the book Whispers and
Shadows.)
Also
available are several of Jerry’s signed books including: Jerry’s newest novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames
County. and Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Jerry’s newest books, Roshara
Journal (with photos by Steve Apps) and Telling Your Story—a guide
book for those who want to write their stories—are also available.
Contact the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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