Dave Driftless

Walnuts and Wooly Bears... A beautiful Wisconsin fall morning.  Purple and white asters blooming in the fields.  Wooly bear caterpillars searching for a winter hiding place.  Grasshoppers realizing their days are numbered.  Coots huddling in the bay.  Sumac turning red.  If it weren’t for the prodigious number of big fat walnuts cluttering up the bike trails, it would be the perfect day for a ride.   Regardless of the season, it’s always a good day to visit a Little Free Library. Opting for a more random approach today, improvising a route as I pedaled, I checked a couple libraries before I [...]

River Road Trip... The Little Free Library in Merrimac, Wisconsin. A beautiful summer morning beckoned and one particularly challenging Little Free Library had been calling my name, so I set out a few Sundays ago for my most demanding library adventure yet.  Kitted out in my usual cycling gear along with a newly designated book tote bag, I left town heading north with a generous wind at my back.  After a couple of hours of pedaling through the beautiful rolling countryside – sighting numerous sandhill cranes, turkey vultures and aggressive red-wing blackbirds – I arrived in the small [...]

Spring is in the Air! Wearing a short-sleeved shirt, biking home from work on the first really warm day of the year, the sun was shining bright and spring was in high gear.  It was a good day to stop at the Little Free Library at the east entrance to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, home to bugling sandhill cranes, squawking red wing blackbirds, diving coots and strutting tom turkeys.   But spring has been unreasonably late this year, so despite the warm weather, the magnolias were just starting to reveal their blooms and the spring peepers weren’t quite ready to [...]