Museums: repositories of historically important cultural material. Natural History Museums: catalogues of animals and bones, plants and seeds. Think of both of them as books, that you walk through. They were born in the […]
Life on the temperate earth goes around in circles, the same way as the earth goes around the sun. In this dance, spring is the kind of thing that requires Autumn leaves. […]
The bald eagles are back from the big winter salmon feast on the coast, just in time for calving season. Looks like this eagle brought some clouds back, doesn’t it! More likely […]
Above Vaseaux Lake …… the old ones watch … … while the young ones scamper … … and all is well with the world … … well, for one moment on one […]
I was on my way to prune some peach trees in the south of the valley today, when I came upon the Vaseaux Lake Bighorn Sheep Herd. What a great way to […]
It was such a pleasure spending some quality time in Tamara’s My Botanical Garden on Monday. Thanks, everyone, for welcoming me with such enthusiasm. It’s fine to share stories of the gardens of […]
Water is life. Life is also water. The relationship goes both ways. Here’s some water…… and here’s some more, on the same mountain on the same day… The first one is water […]
Today, I am proud to be a guest on the website, My Botanical Garden. I hope that my explorations in knowing the land by walking it daily, camera in hand, will bring the […]
Literally! They flew out of the neighbour’s locust tree in a whirr of wings, perched in the flowering crabapple tree across the road, and started stuffing themselves with apples. No sooner than […]
Note: I have been convinced for some time now that the best descriptions of contemporary life are in Speculative Fiction. Here’s a first attempt at bringing them out of fiction into the […]
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