Hairwing Patterns…

Elk Hair Caddis & Hair Wing Dun

staring at the flames and talking…

‘And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree….dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours,…with a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.’ Pietro Aretino, translated from Italian

into it we go…

‘What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…. No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.’ John Burroughs, 1866