If a man’s life is not long enough, a dog’s is even shorter and anything you can do to make that fuller is worthwhile. - George Bird Evans

If you can approach shooting as something to be enjoyed, not a frustrating obsession, it can enrich your life.

Time that gives so much and Time that takes so much away has put its mark on this place that is Old Hemlock almost without altering anything. In that gray-black blend of night-to-dawn I lie and think of all that Kay and I possess, aware that what is good is not what is new but what is loved and used, with a patina from hands and years.

There is time, and you must take it,to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone