Autumn
Introduction to Tom Murphy’s book The Comfort of Autumn Autumn is the season of completion. It is the end of the annual growth of many plants and the fruition and…
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Summer
Introduction to Tom Murphy’s book The Abundance of Summer Yellowstone is one of the finest wild lands left in the world and millions of people go every year to see…
Spring
Introduction to Tom Murphy’s book The Light of Spring Yellowstone’s spring can look like winter, spring, or summer. Winter is still very evident in late March. It can be twenty…
Winter
Introduction to Tom Murphy’s book The Spirit of Winter. From October until May, some of the water rising from the Pacific Ocean falls out of the sky as snow onto…
Keeping an Eye on Yellowstone
Mid-January. Nearly dark. Already 20 below zero. He is alone in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. All he has for shelter is a small blue tarp. The snow is…
Breaking the Crust
I find the pull of open spaces strong enough to lead me away from warmth. In the fall of 1985, about six months after I had skied across Yellowstone Park…
Backcountry Mystic
The images float before the viewer’s eyes, strange and otherworldly — like photos of the Crab Nebula from Hubble, or mixings from a hippie light show. They might be satellite…
