Jeff Ell
JEFF ELL: You’re Only Allowed One Truly Great Dog
There is an immutable law of the universe that not many people care to talk about. An incontrovertible principle that we all quietly accept, but rarely choose to acknowledge.Dog...
JEFF ELL: Snow In May
"Snow in May-Poor man's pay . . ."That’s what an old farmer told me. But...
JEFF ELL: The Four Seasons: Fishing, Girls, Cars, Fishing
“When I was a kid I was into fishing, then I got into cars, then...
JEFF ELL: The Makeup-Free Forest
Like "Maggie's face in the morning sun," the leafless world of early spring is when...
JEFF ELL: Relocated Wildlife
It’s illegal to relocate wildlife in Virginia. So if you have a nuisance raccoon or...
What We Are All Really Hunting
Hunters are dancing around campfires in Virginia. They’re stabbing at the smoke with spears and whooping it up with their buddies. They’re doing a...
Walls Holding Up Sunday Hunting Laws May Come Tumbling Down
Hunters are besieging Richmond. It’s the annual assault to batter down the castle gates and have the ban on Sunday hunting lifted. Year after...
Hunting For Sabbath
“You know you can’t hunt in Virginia on Sunday Dad.”
My oldest daughter was sitting at the breakfast table with the State of Virginia Hunting...
Crunchy Meets Country III
Our day started with a bang. No really, an actual bang.
My younger son-in-law had crawled out of his sleeping bag at dawn, pulled on...
Crunchy Meets Country – Part II
Last time we talked I was telling you about the thru-hikers we met while deer hunting. I’ll be the first to admit that the...
When Crunchy Meets Country
A girl with black eyes walked out of the forest and stood in the soft glow of our campfire. We introduced ourselves, the odd...