There is a saying that goes; “you can never go home again,” but Jeff Sutton is proving you can. The phrase refers to our tendency to have unrealistic or only nostalgic memories of where we spent our formative years, but for Sutton, he is returning to the irrigation district his great-great-grandfather helped create and the … Continue reading “Coming Home”

His neck bent backward allowing his eyes the chance to follow the bark line to the top of the towering pines reaching toward the majestic blue above. Beneath his gaze flowed a forest green ocean of pine needles pinching the branches as so they would not be lost to the wind. The whistling sound the … Continue reading “The TreeGazer, Willie Whittlesey”

At just eight years old, Andy was set free into the woods. To be clear he wasn’t abandoned. This was the early 1980s and kids were given immense freedom to explore the outdoors on their own accord. Spared from the fears of parents today, the brown-haired boy with dust coated jeans and a t-shirt would … Continue reading “The Perfect Combination, Andy Fecko”

It was supposed to be just like the other trips they took to the Sonoma Coast. But this time, they wouldn’t make it to Fort Bragg for the Memorial Day Weekend holiday. Parked along a two-lane road, the brake-line in their RV-Bus conversion failed and the Bair family was tossed about the camper as it … Continue reading “The Optimist, Lewis Bair”