Tra la la, I go up the hill. Ah, people are already here, I see. It’s good to have company and good to go on alone. Bella Vista And it’s good to […]
A Walk Through the Grass or The Goddess Takes Many Forms
Zombie Apples
I don’t want to eat zombies! It used to be that the apple industry was based upon creating industrial activity around the harvesting, processing, packing and shipping of apples, which grew in the […]
A Joyful Day for the Spirit of the Land
Choke cherries, beloved of the sky. And in my kitchen! Lots of choke cherries! What a lovely meditation they are for the fingers. And the eye, too… And the mind. As […]
Jezersko Village
My friend Tamara in her botanical garden in Slovenia noted yesterday that some of the images in my post a few days ago about Big Bar Lake on the Cariboo Plateau could […]
Writing With Light
The blue sky? The yellow bird? The green pine? Female American Goldfinch in a Lodgepole Pine the Beetles Missed Big Bar Lake Hardly. Those are properties of human sight, and of American Goldfinch […]
This is Why People Are Afraid of the Dark
Remember those beautiful pictures of the night? The ones I showed you yesterday because I got spooked by noises in the night on the hill and wandered back home and discovered my […]
The Garden at Night
Ah, the August Moon, with her old face above the black hills, riding clouds as she has since humans first looked up to the night. Nectarine Moon I used to walk out […]
Climbing with the Bears
Wanna? Up you go! You have to hang on, though. With every leg you have… As training, I’d advise you not to trim your fingernails for awhile. Hang on, now! ~ Otter Pond […]
Water, Time and Loons
Ah, what great stuff water is. When the sun mixes with it like spiritual smoke, you can sort of see through it… It looks a bit like a polaroid photograph of the […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
Okanagan Okanogan 