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FRIDAY PHOTO: BULLET HOLES AND UNION JACKS
“I will never forget myself starting across the sere Oklahoma panhandle at dusk one cold February evening and becoming so depressed by the melancholy of…
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: PRAIRIE DANCERS
The hauntingly beautiful words below are from the late, great, and incomparable Texas writer John Graves, taken from his essay, “Self Portrait, With…
 • Chad Love
A LATE SEASON WALK, RELUCTANTLY ARMED
Every time I bear witness to the quivering stillness of a dog followed by the flush of a quail, I can’t help but think I stumbled into something of…
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: WAYPOINTS
Sometimes the way we are shown is not the path we will take.
 • Chad Love
GREED AND RAINBOWS
For a number of years my wife, as one of those recurring holiday jokes, would buy me the exact same gift, which was a calendar of the trout of North…
 • Chad Love
IN BOBWHITE COUNTRY
This is a quiet little essay that appeared recently in an issue of our state magazine here in Oklahoma.
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: FIXER UPPER
Great Views. Good Bones. Needs a Little TLC. Ghosts Included, No Extra Charge.
 • Chad Love
CLOUD SHADOW
This short essay was originally published in the Tom Beckbe Field Journal last year.
 • Chad Love
RIO DE LOS CARNEROS CIMARRONES
Do bird hunters dream of wild sheep?*
 • Chad Love
PHOTO FRIDAY: SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBOW
I like rainbows.
 • Chad Love
ON THE ROAD
We all go home in November...
 • Chad Love
PHOTO FRIDAY: HOLES IN THE LIGHT
I take a lot of shadow selfies with the dogs.
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: TAKING THE PLUNGE
“Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.” I’ve always loved that old Ray Bradbury quote.
 • Chad Love
SO YOU WANT TO HUNT OKLAHOMA QUAIL, HUH?
Saturday is the season opener of our quail season here in Oklahoma, and Saturday will also mark the beginning of my 41st year of quail hunting in…
 • Chad Love
Mostly Feathers
Wild birds and good dogs, timeless books and endless questions, lonely places and moving water, the grass below and the sky above, and the never-ending absurdity and enduring beauty of life.
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