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Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place (2007)

por Robert Michael Pyle

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Much the way Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New England, Sky Time in Gray's River captures the essence of the rural Northwest. Although Rober Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the village of Gray's River spoke to him on a visit thirty years ago. Ever since then he has lived in the village, which was one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and which still feels only tenuously connected to the twenty-first century. Sky Time brings Gray's River to life by compressing those thirty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of its people, birds, butterflies - and cats- month by month through the seasons. In showing how the village has changed his life, Pyle illustrates how a special place can change anyone lucky enough to find it and highlights what is being lost in a world of accelerating speed, mobility, and sameness. Above all, Sky Time tells us that you dont have to travel far to see something new every day - if you know how to look.… (mais)
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I was really looking forward to this book and, for a while, it was quite mellow,
with lovely descriptions of birds and animals.

Yet, instead of placing Bird Prevention
Decals on his windows, he continued to predictably
picked up the fallen dead birds.

Then he described how he drowned the baby possums from a dead mother
instead of calling a Wildlife or Possum Rescue.

Hard to figure.... ( )
  m.belljackson | Sep 11, 2023 |
My neighbor Bob Pyle wrote this book about the valley in which I live. He includes about a page describing my father. I just nabbed it back from my father's reading table, and will now have a chance to read it myself. But a quick looks yields some surprises and some happy meetings of expectations.

1. The author writes very well, and waxes poetic on leaves, packrats, rain, etc.

2. The author spends a lot of time writing about people I know, even mentioning their very names. For a nationally published book, I had not expected so many mentions of so many country folk.

3. His description of my father is spot on.

4. He does not disguise his opinions about politics or the environment. Living, as he does, in an area filled with logges and the offspring of loggers, he does not find a welcoming majority of environmentalists, as he might in the city (where few have much real connection to nature). He understands this, and some of the interest in his books is to witness how he handles this tension.

It is, by the way, even as an artifact of modern bookcraft, a lovely book. ( )
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Much the way Donald Hall's Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New England, Sky Time in Gray's River captures the essence of the rural Northwest. Although Rober Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the village of Gray's River spoke to him on a visit thirty years ago. Ever since then he has lived in the village, which was one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and which still feels only tenuously connected to the twenty-first century. Sky Time brings Gray's River to life by compressing those thirty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of its people, birds, butterflies - and cats- month by month through the seasons. In showing how the village has changed his life, Pyle illustrates how a special place can change anyone lucky enough to find it and highlights what is being lost in a world of accelerating speed, mobility, and sameness. Above all, Sky Time tells us that you dont have to travel far to see something new every day - if you know how to look.

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