Why a three button cuff, the philosophy of threes, and how it became our thing It caught your eye didn't it? Perhaps you thought it a bit much at first, thinking "not for me- best left to someone else". Is it an...
Afterimage: My Fathers Birthday Today is my father's birthday. He would have been seventy. Try as I might I can't see him at this age just as I can't seem to picture myself at...
The Art of Holiday Packing As you know we can be a bit obsessive about things. The art of packing for travel is no exception. Years of crisscrossing the globe have taught us...
Men of Style & Story: Bryan Ferry Is there a musician who wears a suit as well , or has aged as elegantly as Bryan Ferry? From the earliest of days with Roxy Music to his...
Estancia: Shirting Inspiration at World’s End When we were younger our friend A.R. decided he had reached his limit of Wyoming winters. He met an Argentinian girl, left us holding...
to wax or not to wax oneself It began with a knock on the door to the library. The housekeeper stepped in and said she had done something terrible. Did she throw one of my...
11 Of Our Favorite Classic Women Obsessions: Classic Women There is something about a truly timeless and classic beauty that speaks to a man of any age. When we look at our...
Meridian- Neither Here Nor There Its the Meridian, that imaginary half of a great circle, curving from pole to pole that has us thinking about our journeys as of late. Where are we...
Journeys Near and Far Far too often we talk about the far-flung and the exotic, but what of the journeys closer to home? The amble down a country lane with a Robin's nest...
Brothers of the Cloth: M.W. We always love it when we have a visitor at our North American outpost. It provides a great opportunity to sit down and have some in depth talks...
Reynard As a child I came across the fox as most do. The pages of Aesops Fables, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Goethes's Reineke Fuchs, and Reynard the Fox, telling...
Obsessions: Moto Guzzi At this point we are unsure if our Guzzi lust has moved from beyond the realms of mere obsession to something else entirely. Despite the fact...
Cortina Our younger selves would cringe if they could see how we have grown to embrace the more refined aspects of mountain culture as we have aged...
The island of French magicians and a question of returning to the past. The roar of the plane is still with us, the buffeting of wind and air as we leave the sky behind, the tear drops of island chains in the blueness,the...
Greeneland As the moon lay heavy on the thick, lapping banks of the Ben Hai, I walked slowly yet purposefully. The day had brought great promise for the...
Imperial Black, Lieutenant Twiss & a Darjeeling Hill Station Shimla Matheran Darjeeling smoke and dawn in the foothills of the Himalaya Darjeeling & Kanchenjunga a temple of...
Out of sorts on the Ides of March March has us jangled and out of sorts. One could easily write off the whole month as nothing seemed to go as planned but our predicament certainly...
Armchair Mountaineers- Planning to Plan inspiration in oxidation. One of E.H's Plans begin to unfold something...
A North Woods Sky We are sitting next to the large purple buddleia. It's dusky smell making itself known when allowed by the stiffening breeze coming off Sturgeon...
Angling South Usually June and July see us overseas with a lazy, late afternoon realization that it is the fourth. Shrug, nod in the general direction of where...
