Savvy chefs certainly know how to get our tastebuds salivating. It's simply a case of using the right choice of words on the menu to describe their culinary creations. It's a dangerous weapon in their arsenal because too often when it's really over the top it can become painful to read about " slive...

We invite you to take a break from the day to day stresses of life and enjoy a quiet cabin getaway on the Saluda River. Young Joseph Blythe and his bride carefully maneuvered their wagon and horse through the thick forest of hemlock, oak, poplar and white pines. They had traveled a long distance and...

A look at how I've been diverting myself lately. Books READ: Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau. COMING UP: Candide, or Optimism; Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800; His Dark Materials. Plays SAW: Stupid Kids (About Face Theatre) [a brilliant updating of John C. Russell's late-80...

I was lucky enough to be out walking twice this week; the first time around Petworth, in We st Sussex, and today in New Alresford in Hampshire.  South of Petworth we had to cross the River Rother, beautiful, but thick with mud and cloudy.  I love rivers of every colour and complexion but i...

Much as we’d all like to be casting $1,800 varnished masterpieces, there are a whole lot of rods people can get a hold of without taking out a third mortgage loan. Some are perfectly suitable for delicate trout fishing, while others would feel more comfortable in an urban industrial park, or i...

Last week, I finished up a little quilting project I'd been working on. As he always tends to do when I am doing something with fabric, Kendell asked me the question "Why do you like sewing so much?" This question always makes me stop and think, because it manages to get under my skin-...

BY BRIAN KEVIN As soon as he became the first director of the National Park Service in 1917, millionaire borax magnate Stephen Mather promoted the parks as the ultimate social equalizers, places “accessible alike to the poor and to the rich.� According to Mather, the Parks were places where iden...

I haven't quit fishing.....I've just quit catching.  We tried to get on the water four times last week that included a trip to Toledo Bend. In the first hour of the first trip we caught four big trout on Corkys and a chartreuse Mirrodine XL.  The south wind immediately pick...

Just got a call from my stepdad. The big sows are startin' to be caught (speckled trout). So I go over to Mike Lanes site and sure enough there are some big ones in the pics section. Looks like most of them are being caught trolling. I'm going to clean up my boat and get it ready this weekend and ge...

This past weekend, Phil, Amy, myself and a large group of friends got together for the 2009 Sebago Ice Fishing Derby!  Phil towed the "Jerk Center IV" out into the deeper waters beyond the Dingley Islands.  The shack is named after a jerk chicken "restaurant" he found...