LARS BLACKMORE Posts

June 23, 2024

We’re off. Almost. On July 1st the apprentice direwolf and her handler will be heading west. We’re not stopping until we reach Lake Louise in Alberta. Long a bucket list item, soon to be another wild and wonderful adventure of hikes, Walmarts, Red Roof Inns, and many, many miles of highways and byways. Come for…

April 6, 2021

Like the finest truffles, the tastiest of critters are of course those that have been allowed to marinate in unfiltered pond water before fermenting under a rotting birch log, and finally left to properly cure in the gentle rays of the early spring sun…. delish.

April 5, 2021

Spent a good 15 minutes trying to unearth a critter to no avail… it’s a tough life in the jungle.

April 2, 2021

If winter keeps on calling, we’ll keep on coming back for more… Joined @jeremyxmerritt for sunrise worship on Cube — while it was surprisingly cold, the trail was unsurprisingly messy, with mud, ice and fresh snow offering up the classic early mud season challenges underfoot. Laika approved of all of it.

March 27, 2021

Congratulations to Manchester, NH Fire Chief Dan Goonan on his retirement after 36 years. I was fortunate to spend a day with this remarkable man a few years ago working on a story for Geisel Medicine on the opioid crisis, covering the compassionate and succesful Safe Station program he spearheaded.

February 4, 2021

Fun assignment for Leah McLaughry of Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Real Estate in Hanover, NH. Amazing what a little sunshine can do to make a winter listing pop… below the same shot taken just 24 hours earlier while the snow was still coming down.

January 4, 2021

Guessing Ford won’t run with my five-star review of the great team at Lebanon Ford… Owning a Ford diesel truck is like having an incurable, debilitating, congenital disease — you learn to live with it and to accept the severe limitations it puts on your life. And you come to depend on the care of…

November 17, 2018

For over a decade now, I’ve shot the Norwich Halloween gathering in front of the Norwich Inn for Norwich Recreation. When I first started doing it, my own kids were part of the gaggle of kids gathering to bob for donut holes and prepare for trick or treating in town. Now, it’s a whole new…