Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 15, 2017

Lot’s of trees for privacy.

Tell that to my wife….she can’t go unless there’s a pristine porcelain bowl and no-one around within earshot.

The only extra you need is knowledge of the safest leaves.

One of backpacking’s many pleasures.

Just make sure another nature lover isn’t peaking around from behind a tree.

“until you don’t want to leave.” One of your best. Thanks, Wiley.

I love the second (oval) frame.

It’s called “getting a life”.

Once in communicado, one never wants to go back!

But watch where you step. It’s a Wiley cartoon. So… bears…. you know.

actually when I was young I used to love to go out and hike in ‘uncharted’ lands and be one with Ma Nature. I would still be out there but seems that Ma Nature gave me problems with my knees….

Nature is awesome; it put me in touch with the Higher Force of Life….

I’m not sure that leaving this kid alone with nothing but her own thots for any length of time is necessarily a good idea.

Corn lilies, I highly recommend corn lily leaves.

Amazing how those woods, and rivers, and mountains that I explored, forded, and climbed as a kid, shrunk to a small thicket, stream, and hill, by the time I grew up.

Nice one, Wiley.

No cellular service?!? Say what? She is in N.Dakota and has Sprint for a provider. Sprint had few, if any towers last time I was there.

Being there.

To return to Nature to be closer to it. Impossible in cities everything is paved over. Barely any life there. The web is broken and just poor isolated islands of life here and there scattered. If you need to wipe all you have are leaves. Someone recommended “corn lilies” but only if you can find them.

When I was a preschooler, my dad had a primitive log cabin in the woods where he would go to write. I recall staying with him once, and experiencing a call of nature in the middle of the night. Nothing like peeing in the woods in the dark with only a kerosene lamp and Dad for company…..

Nature doesn’t move very fast, but it is still more interesting than what passes for entertainment on tv.

ACTUALLY, even out in the woods, there ARE rules about WHERE and HOW you can and cannot do your business. the NPS and USFS and state and local parks services have imposed certain rules that help protect the park and its denizens, AND the water that goes down stream to reservoirs. some parks don’t even allow you to do your business ANYWHERE in the park, or that you take it back with you. rules vary, so look up the respective agency’s website regarding the rules of the park that you will be visiting. the most important one is that always do your business AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED FEET from any water source and/or campsite. and make sure you dig a hole that’s AT LEAST SIX INCHES deep.

Once every summer, I have to make a pilgrimage to my parents’ summer house to keep myself in the will. The vibe there is also very much “sit, relax, and just be.” This year I managed a personal best by sitting, relaxing, and just being for 27 hours before I started thinking that if I didn’t get out of there within the next 24, they’d make a Law and Order episode about the results.

I get that some people like to “get away from it all”. Some of us, however, thrive in “it all”.

Well there is a proverb about not peeing into the wind

What about ticks and Lyme’s disease? Three people in our neighbourhood have chronic Lyme’s, and others have required antibiotic treatment for infected bites

Well, the wilderness is the wilderness – that’s why it’s called the wilderness. How’s that for Philosophy 1.01?