Author Archives: wellread

A few steps on the trail reveals the all-encompassing silence. You glance around and see trees, rocks, dirt. The forest stretches in all directions and the mountains grasp the hillside. These are things with which you are familiar but something is different. The silence. Where are all the sounds? You stop a moment and you […]

The first snowfall always comes too soon. In spite of cooling temperatures and reduced photoperiods summer doesn’t really end until that first winter storm forces you to realize it. It was a quick storm, maybe a day and a half. The Sacramento Valley got the first rain it had seen in months. Indeed the forest […]