Kind of a longer poem today, and recorded indoors--or rather, in car, trying to get out of the wind enough to make myself audible. I was birding at the Provo Airport Dike, which is one of the best spots around here for waterbirds (and other birds as well, of course).

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Recorded while hiking, which explains but does not justify the noise of the wind, stream, footsteps, and worst of all, my heavy breathing. But the poem is beautiful, and the background noise might help you intuit the setting I recorded in, which is about as beautiful as it gets. It is, in fact, up South Fork in Provo Canyon, on my way to the Cascade Saddle (among other places).

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Recorded during a pause while fishing on the lower Provo River, just a couple of miles up the canyon from my house. I had a #14 Elk Hair Caddis fly on about four feet of tippet at the end of a 12' Tenkara rod.

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Episode 105-Shelley's "Ozymandias"

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Recorded at the Indian Road trailhead, which leads to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. I was in the car for this recording, because I wasn't sure about my outdoors setup.

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Recorded while hiking on a section of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, part way up Provo Canyon. There's some wind and I have to breathe heavy because, well, I'm hiking at an elevation that looks down on Denver by 1000 feet. Except Denver is eight hours away. I'm also 1000 feet higher than Salt Lake or my beloved Provo, but they don't claim to be "Mile High."

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101: Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

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Discussion on John Milton's poem, "When I consider how my light is spent"

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