Three Miles Past Lost and in the Pickers

A pine seedling in a century-old stump, bears, plays, ticks and tickets, newsprint, digital imagery, deadfall, TV scripts, turkey vultures, symphonies and show tunes, blackberry picking, computers, a snake in the kitchen, publishing, one-liners, chainsaws and chaps, "Romeo and Juliet" and "Guys on Ice," Teleprompters, howling at wolves, wireless microphones, soaring eagles, reviews by the hundreds, and live reports from the Dead Cow Farm.

Enter the world of George, who writes. George works in reality and in his imagination. And he takes photos. The blend is dynamic.

George is the alter ego of Warren Gerds, one of Wisconsin's particularly prolific journalists. First for a newspaper and now for a CBS-TV affiliate, Warren has written upwards of 10,000 byline stories and columns. There is more to tell and show - as in these pages.