Yesterday, while watching CBS Sunday Morning, a bird fluttered into the
lilac outside the window and briefly rested. I knew it was not one of the
usual suspects right away and quite a surprise: a Townsend's Solitaire. It
was a nice way to start the day!

Michael Brown
Puyallup, Washington

"to announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we
are
to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

-Teddy Roosevelt

"...I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of
what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac