DW with the PorcupineGallery: Drawings - AutobiographicalDescription: As I age, I spend more time in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where I'd spent many adventurous summers as a boy. Not long ago, on the White Ledge trail, I encountered an almost-friendly porcupine, who made me reflect on the Indian tribes that in times past lived in closer, more respectful balance with nature than do we conquistadores from Europe. (See the poem "A Prickly relationship" on this site.)