contents -- acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CONNECTION -- The Testimony of the Marsh -- Holdfast -- Howling With Strangers -- A Field Guide to Western Birds -- The Thing About Dogs -- Field Notes for an Aesthetic of Storms -- The Western Singing Fish -- SEPARATION -- The Song of the Canyon Wren -- The Prometheus Moth -- Traveling the Logging Road, Coast Range -- Cast Your Frog On the Water -- Memory (The Boathouse) -- Baking Bread With My Daughter -- Pale Morning Dun (Ephemerella infrequens) -- CONNECTION -- On Being Afraid of Bears -- Notes From the Pig-Barn Path -- The Man With a Stump Where His Head Should Be -- The Only Place Like This -- Canoeing on the Line of a Song -- Incoming Tide -- Dead Reckoning -- Afterword: The Way of the Osprey -- Other Books in the Northwest Reprints series.