Wonderful Walk in Woods ~by Mark Blackwell
Whose woods are these? They’re mine for now, As I venture out on the new fallen snow. No sled, no skis with fancy ski poles; Just me and my mukluks with lugged rubber soles. Treading a path with nowhere to go, Listening to the silence of the new falling snow.
photo courtesy DNR
W
hen you live out in the woods—and in Brown County—it pays to enjoy all of the seasons. It’s easy to love spring with the peepers peeping and the daffodils daffling. Summer is also easy with long, sunny, sultry days filled with picnics and fishing. And autumn, the fanciest season in Brown County. You can hardly think of fall down here without summoning up the vision the forest
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decked out in its colorful finery and the tangy smell of wood smoke in the air. But winter seems to get overlooked as a desirable time of the year. Some of my best memories are of the winters I have spent in Brown County. As the days grew shorter and the weather got colder, I worried about my water lines freezing and maybe an electrical outage. But
