Not exactly in season (at-least in the Northern Hemisphere)

For all who think about such things – or ought-to.

. . . fish or no fish, he said, angling with the fly was good for the soul, for it connected the angler through rod, line, and leader to rivers and the wonderful countryside they flowed through in an intimate way no other endeavor did. He declared that fly-fishing was the most hopeful of all sports, and that hope, more than any other quality, was what distinguished us from the lower orders of life such as fish themselves. Though he assured us that if he ever caught another fish, he would promptly release it, thereby giving it cause to hope that the next time it was hooked it might be set free.

-- Howard Frank Mosher (Vermont’s own), The True Account (2012; Chapter 39)

Before I turned my back on eating and using animals, I did enjoy fishing. Some great rivers and lochs where I was brought up.

If I had to live in the US, it would have to be in Vermont: the most irreligious State in America.

Now H, pick your audience: I AM in Vermont AND I'm passing the time here on LT while waiting to drive seventeen miles to church. The idea of Vermont's irreligiosity is just so much popular demographgic bosh, based on reported attendance at recognized houses of worship. Furthermore, that factoid was put-out years ago, and is pretty-well shop-worn, and the subject of much sarcastic comment here, both by believers and, well, I'll call them "total abstainers". When it comes to "walkin' the walk, and not just talkin' the talk", I'll stand up for the Green Mountain State against any of the places I've ever lived or visited in the US or Canada. I came here as my intended last stop on this planet, and in best possible scheme, will leave -- ideally many years hence -- from atop a thousand-ton block of white quartz on a wooded hillside a few hunded feet from where I'm sitting. And I'll be glad -- and honoured to have the chance. . . . Meanwhile, in another post I see that you're really packin' away the dough. Spend some of it on a visit: you'll love it here in the Land of the Gun-Totin' Granola Eaters. And DO bring your fly-rod. Peace, brother, -- Goddard

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/160415/mississippi-maintains-hold-religious-state.asp...

Just 5 days old my friend.

They haven't asked me. You need to come experience the real Vermont. There is some reconciliation to our viewpoints, however, no matter what one thinks of polls -- and I guess you can figure what I think of them. I consider myself honoured to be at the opposite end of any scale where Mississippi head the list. Since the death of Charlie Patton, I doubt that that corner of Hell even qualifies as part of the Twentieth Century, let aone the Twenty-First. I consider myself an Interplanetarian first, but catch me in the right mood, and you'll see the unrepentant Yankee -- except in baseball terms (God forbid). -- G