Category Archives: Humptulips County

A Winter’s Sunset

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Gavin Stevens

Sunset comes early to Humptulips County this time of year.  By dinnertime, our sky has darkened and night is truly upon us.   If you’ve been distracted by some other pursuit during a late afternoon – reading or watching television, perhaps – the all too brief passage … Continue reading →

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The Promise of the Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens)

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The wind tastes faintly of Winter’s crispness; daylight is shading toward Winter clarity.    Heavy morning frost has become a regular visitor, persisting in the shaded nooks throughout the day and leaving the faintest impression of early snow in the darkest, deepest crannies where daylight scarcely reaches.  Pine limbs greet the day coated … Continue reading →

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Of Little Girls and Perfect Days

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. Robert Frost, Gathering Leaves Violins of Autumn sobbing Deep and lone, Pierced my heart is with their throbbing Monotone. Fierce and quick the breath, … Continue reading →

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The Glory of a Rural Mailbox

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The nights are getting cold, almost cold enough for frost to grace our mornings.  There was a proto-frost, an almost-icing, on our fields yesterday morning when I walked down to get the newspapers and mail.  The air was clean and the light exceedingly … Continue reading →

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Foggy Days and Foggy Nights

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

“Fog everywhere.  Fog up the river where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it roils defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.  Fog on the … Continue reading →

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A Climatic War Zone

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

The arrival of fall has turned Humptulips County into a climatic war zone.  Even as I write I can hear thunder in the distance and rain is falling regularly as it has been for the last three days.  This is … Continue reading →

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Autumnal Pas de Deux

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Autumn arrived precisely on schedule this year in Humptulips County.  For once, the calendar and the weather decided to dance a pas de deux and the day of the autumnal equinox coincided with declining temperatures and the first rains of fall.  You can always … Continue reading →

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Of Autumnal Light

Posted on August 31, 2013 by C. (Gaius) Charles

The light softened – or, rather, I noticed that it had softened – as of around 7 or 8 o’clock the evening of August 17th.  As is always tradition (at least in the “whoops, I almost forgot about this but … Continue reading →

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Summer Is A-Fadin’ Away

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

While it isn’t the last weekend of summer according to the calendar, it certainly is in accordance with our shared culture.  The long Labor Day weekend has always marked summer’s conclusion in the United States, for the school years in districts across the land have either begun by then or … Continue reading →

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Hitting The Road

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Gavin Stevens

Helen and I are leaving Humptulips County this afternoon for a trip by river boat through Eastern Europe.  We are excited, nervous about airport security, but ready for an adventure to parts unknown – at least to us.  We fly … Continue reading →

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