Holding Ground.Holding Ground Sam Lucy Countrysport Press PO Box 679, Camden, ME 04843 0892726385 $23.00 1-800-685-7962 www.countrysportpress.com Sam Lucy has been hunting upland birds and waterfowl waterfowl, common term for members of the order Anseriformes, wild, aquatic, typically freshwater birds including ducks, geese, and screamers. In Great Britain the term is also used to designate species kept for ornamental purposes on private lakes or ponds, while in for more than three decades. In Holding Ground: Game Birds, Gun Dogs, Friends, And The Land In Between, Sam draws upon his years of experience and expertise to write twenty-three stories and poems about game bird hunting ranging from his youth hunting the valleys of eastern New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). to his current abode One's home; habitation; place of dwelling; or residence. Ordinarily means "domicile." Living place impermanent in character. The place where a person dwells. Residence of a legal voter. Fixed place of residence for the time being. in Washington's Cascade Range. Here are images of a noble labrador hunting dog's final retrieve, the halting steps of a young setter with a nose full of grouse grouse, common name for a game bird of the colder parts of the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 18 species. Grouse are henlike terrestrial birds, protectively plumaged in shades of red, brown, and gray. scent, the homecoming of a young woman reconnecting with her past, and so much more that will resonate in the mind of the reader long after Holding Ground is finished and set back upon the shelf. Winter River: Come winter, I'll take a river/clear, cold, mountain born/lined in cottonwoods/kept by fields.//Mallards, pintails, snow/funnel down the north wind/straight from a somewhere prairie/to these strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. rapids/and long, quiet pools/freezing only at zero,/puffing restless mists,/driving late ducks.//Raucous fowl regale/feeding for what's ahead,/hungry from what's behind./My Lab and I watch/tucked close to a brush line/savoring the minutes/till the time now has come:/I stand,/the dog tightens,/the winter river roars, and/wings of current permeate. |
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