Rick Bass, a Texas native, lived in Arkansas and Mississippi before moving to northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley. A former petroleum geologist and wildlife biologist, and a leading force behind climate aid, he is the author of more than thirty books, including the short story collections The Watch and For a Little While; the memoir Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had; and the novel All the Land to Hold Us. An active environmentalist, Bass is a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, working to protect as wilderness the last roadless lands in the Yaak Valley.

Mice

A Journal

by Rick Bass
June 12, 2021

Incredible crescent moon. Cold nights, cool days, green. Rhubarb out of control! Two antelope on far hill, sunstruck, cloudless blue sky, just enjoying the sun on their bodies. In the foreground, in the yard, up high in the chokecherries, a mated pair of waxwings, chests facing east, doing the same; perched there for a long time even as others whirred and whirled away and past, feeding, or flurrying, whatever. Big rattlesnake on Solstice Hill. Coiled. Callie pointed it. Tessy and Pony not much interested. The pronghorn came down into the yard.


Juneteenth, 2021
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