Our earth is not just a glob of rocks …

spinning around the sun, and not just vast seas of water sloshing around at the pull of the moon …

… but is also an air. Like the ocean coast…

Heron at Willow Point, looking East. That’s Quadra Island to the left.

… the air has a shore.

We are intertidal creatures on this shore, like these fellows at Willow Point …

It’s not just us. The sagebrush, bunchgrass, trees and weeds here…

… are also intertidal creatures on this shore, reacting to pressures of light, air, wind, atmospheric water, and heat (and to human reactions to them.) It’s easy to think that those are all instantaneous pressure effects, but I don’t know. Look at this snow:

It fell all at once, flat as could be, but it’s melting now, according to patterns, waves shall we say, of wind, and how that has driven the snow, partly in reaction to energies of air and ice crystals, but also to minute edge patterns of heat…

… and in reaction to the forms of the bunchgrass below the snow, which shapes the snow as much as the wind does, and both through this shaping and through the heat tubes of its stalks, shapes the way in which the sun is drawn into it.

And not just that! Here’s the snow itself…

Every grain of snow repeats these effects of sun and shadow, acting in concert, along the vectors of the wind and the other vectors of the hidden grass, to create waves and rivers of focussed light.

Snow is time. Here’s an image of the snow above once the patterns of melting have been integrated into the patterns of the grass itself.

And wouldn’t you know it: grasses, too, are creatures of the wind. This shorescape, this lightly breaking and focussed sky, is the primary human habitat.