People in this part of the the Driftless (and it is funny how spell checker always underlines the word as being “misspelled”) Area are watching the Kickapoo river. It has swelled to near flood stage three times over the course of this Summer, and we all remember how it rose high enough to make the [...]
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THINK – I found an elf??
Posted: 12th August 2010 by cord in The Driftless TrailsTags: driftless, elf, muse, playful
In a small village near by near the Black River there us a cave-like rock formation which is quite miraculous in itself. This is the actual and untouched digital picture of the interior of the formation. When I downloaded it and looked at the left side of the picture and near the bottom I noticed [...]
Cordwood House
Posted: 8th August 2010 by cord in The Driftless TrailsTags: cordwood, driftless, poetry
A cordwood house is made of logs that are sawed at lengths of about 18 inches and then motored in a line to form a wall. I built the one below near a river in Wisconsin and I built a poem story to fill in the cracks. Written in Spring of 2003 on the edge [...]
Can you “Handel” a good dam post?
Posted: 23rd June 2009 by cord in The Driftless TrailsTags: Handel, Kickapoo, video, Water Music
The Dam on the Kickapoo River Gays Mills, Wisconsin The Kickapoos (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi) are one of the Algonquian speaking Native American tribes. According to the Anishinaabeg, the name “Kickapoo” means “Stands Here and there” and refers to the tribes migratory patterns.The name can also mean “wanderer”. The river is one of the oldest [...]
Bathtub Springs
Posted: 13th June 2009 by cord in The Driftless TrailsTags: driftless area, springs, water
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I love the city. I do not think I could ever call a city home again. It is 6 a.m. as I listen to the bird song and open the door to allow the voice of the robin that will build its third year’s nest in the leaves of the red maple I can almost [...]