Nature Noir is the first book written by Jordan Fisher Smith. For a first book, he did a fine job as a wordsmith. The content of the book is quite personal to me since it is about an area that I have always loved from my first glance. I have much in common with the author and his experiences. It ...
Each time the American River floods big and brown with snowmelt and rain, I remember better the way huge drift logs turn ponderous circles in eddies, and where the river is carrying away land at the outside of turns, and where it builds beaches at the inside of them. Later, on warm spring days af...