by Steven Higgs | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
The luminescent yellow daffodil blooms scattered along the roadside were the first indications that a higher spirit was on call during a Saturday morning drive through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness. Given the season and forecast, the mission was simple and...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
I should have known better than to venture to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness with lowered expectations. The mission for this drive for pleasure across the forested razorback called Tower Ridge Road was to discover if the Road Closed Ahead sign just past the Blackwell...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Miller Ridge looms some 300 feet above the Panther Creek Hollow and is home to a stand of old-growth hardwood upland forest that is rare but does exist deep in the Hoosier National Forest. Jeff Stant knows the stand and will lead me there soon for the next installment...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
From the time my daughters were in diapers, Higgs family vacations have always followed my Nikon to the wildest places we could handle, from Sleeping Bear Dunes on the northern shores of Lake Michigan to the Smokey Mountains around Cherokee, N.C. Now that we’re all...
by Steven Higgs | Mar 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Before I learned my Colombian friends Patricia and sister Luz lived in Yecla, Spain, I had never heard of the place. The town of some 35,000 sits in the Southeast of Spain, in the heart of the region’s olive, almond, and wine country. Arid climate, sandy soil. For a...
