Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385336543 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cliffie.H-B said Not quite what I expected. Temple Stream really dragged. Interminable descriptions of flowers and birds and beavers and trees. There is no connection - I picture Roorbach walking around the woods muttering to himself, "Pretty, pretty, pretty," but not quite being able to put it all together.This book is trying to be an updated version of A Sand County Almanac or Never Cry Wolf, but is not as good as either. I f. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WORKS I WISH HAD NOT ENDED D. Blankenship Temple Stream by Bill Roorbach fills just about every requirement I have for an absolutely enjoyable and delightful read. This work is one man's story, or journey, if you will, of his life near a small stream near Farmington Maine. The author is with his wife, two dogs, eventually his newborn daughter, and a collection of local characters that drift in and out of his story. This is a . Linda Bulger said From source to sea. Often the journey is more important than the destination, and that's the sort of journey author Bill Roorbach traveled in writing this delightful book. In 199"From source to sea" according to Linda Bulger. Often the journey is more important than the destination, and that's the sort of journey author Bill Roorbach traveled in writing this delightful book. In 1992 Roorbach and his wife bought an old house on the banks of the Temple Stream in rural Maine. Their occupancy of the house was frequently interrupted by career needs, but they always returned to their stream-side home with joy an. Roorbach and his wife bought an old house on the banks of the Temple Stream in rural Maine. Their occupancy of the house was frequently interrupted by career needs, but they always returned to their stream-side home with joy an
I call the stream ours because our house is in its valley and a corner of our land touches the stream at a dramatic bend, and because my wife and our daughter (always in the company of our dogs) walk down to that bend every morning, every season. Weekly. The stream is our point of contact with all the waters of the world.Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the many runes by which Bill Roorbach discovers a universe of nature along the stream that runs by his home in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom the generous-spirited Roorbach (aka “The Professor”) and his family mi
He records a series of forays along his stream, observing subtle environmental clues: the mix of trees, the types of garbage, the attitudes of local beavers, the varieties of birds and wildflowers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Bollocks—but usually there's just a single golden thought: for example, seeing caddis fly nets, he remembers calling them "wind socks" as a boy and then recalls a feeling he had, 40 years back, of being "late for dinner, all alone in his canoe, drifting homeward." Some themes thread through these essays: the progress of home improvements, his wife's pregnancy, his messages-in-a-bottle miraculously returned, his charting of Temple Stream back to its mysterious source. . Roorbach's obvious delight in obscure p