The River Landing

Essays, scenes, and opinions interfacing the natural world, especially life along rivers, and modern society

Introduction

  • How to Purchase a Copy of Side Channels: A Collection of Nature Writing and Memoir
  • Notes from the Fourth Phase
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  • The River Landing

About

Mississippi River at Palisaides State Park-1978
Mississippi River Backwater, NW Illinois

Recent Posts

  • Beginning with a Small Yellow Flower
  • Ten Essential Songs (One Man’s Opinion)
  • A Big Dark Bird on the Wind
  • Tending the Beast
  • Town Walking
  • The Last Old Oak
  • What Didn't Happen
  • For Future Reference
  • On a Search for the Floodplain Warbler
  • Wheelbarrow Blues

Categories

  • A View of Nature (13)
  • Bird Book Reviews (13)
  • Birds and Birding (61)
  • Canoeing (9)
  • Chautauqua National Willdife Refuge (24)
  • Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge (7)
  • General Articles Travel-Nature (12)
  • Illinois River (50)
  • Literary Essays (9)
  • Music (10)
  • Natural Areas (28)
  • Notes from the Fourth Phase (46)
  • Outdoor Notes (38)
  • River Reading List (1)
  • Side Channels Notes (17)
  • Stories from the Cabin (31)
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River Scenes Photo Gallery

  • La Moine River, McDonough County, Illinois

Illinois River Photo Gallery

  • Towboat pushing a barge with wind turbine blades, Aug. 14, 2021

Mississippi River Photo Gallery

  • Mississippi River at Andalusia Slough

Hill Prairie Photo Gallery

  • Sangamon River and Revis Hill Prairie Nature Preserve

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
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  • July 2021
  • June 2021

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Favorite Web Sites

  • Sobatka Literary Magazine
  • River Teeth
  • Purchase a Copy of Side Channels
  • Midwest Writing Center
  • Illinois River Road National Scenic Byway
  • Harvesting the River
  • Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary NonFiction
  • Big River Magazine
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Notes from the Fourth Phase

 

Cabin 19-Oct-2014 Photo2Stone fireplace at the cabin, showing year of construction (author's birth year).

 

List of Posts on Notes from the Fourth Phase:

 

Beginning with a Small Yellow Flower        May 9, 2022

Ten Essential Songs (One Man's Opinion)      April 8, 2022

A Big Dark Bird on the Wind        February 1, 2022

Tending the Beast        January 1, 2022

Town Walking        December 1, 2021

The Last Old Oak        November 7, 2021

What Didn't Happen, Or How I Saved Two Old People From Certain Death        November 1, 2021

For Future Reference        October 9, 2021

On a Search for the Floodplain Warbler        August 1, 2021

Wheelbarrow Blues        July 1, 2021

To Hear or Not to Hear        June 1, 2021

Always an Eagle        May 19, 2021

A Clear Message        April 12, 2021

Following the Gold        April 1, 2021

A Sign of a Time        March 1, 2021

Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak Nature Preserve:  A 30-Year Perspective on Meanings and Change        February 1, 2021

As the Crow Walks        January 17, 2021 

Falling Ice        January 8, 2021

Birding to a Time and Place        November 12, 2020

Jays in the Neighborhood        October 1, 2020

Reflections on Racial Disharmony        September 17, 2020

Wilderness Symbols Remain        September 1, 2020

Prairie to the Horizon        August 9, 2020

If a Tree Falls        July 19, 2020

From a Gathering of Blackbirds        July 13, 2020

Bird Expectations       June 20, 2020

Landmarks and Trail Markers        June 13, 2020

Accordion Boy        March 2, 2020

The Page Turning        February 4, 2020

The Shrinking Comfort Zone    September 23, 2019

Sandpiper at Twenty-three Degrees    August 18, 2019

Fireflies of an Evening    July 1, 2019

In the Flight Path      June 5, 2019

The Wind's Gift        May 9, 2019

The Tree Swallow Threshold       April 1, 2019

First Signs        February 21, 2019

The Aftermath        February 6, 2019

Arctic D-Day        February 1, 2019

Mississippi River Full Circle        January 10, 2019

A Flurry of Bird Activity        January 1, 2019

In Defense of Territory        December 10, 2018

Impermanence and Deep Time         December 1, 2018

What Have I Been Missing?        November 20, 2018

Morning Grackles        November 9, 2018

Edward Abbey and The Fool's Progress:  A Personal Thirty-year Assessment        October 26, 2018

Not a Good Day for Canoeing        October 18, 2018

 

On the trail Sept-8-2015 (2)