A grassland slope… Big Bar Esker (An Esker is a river that ran upside down beneath glacial ice.) Flowers in Big Bar Lake. Grassland ground up on the esker… That’s not […]
The Hidden Water of the Grasslands
The Ice Age is Still Here
Ice dropped a stone two miles to its bed. Lichen came. It’s still here. Grass came. It’s still here. Trees have come and gone how many times with fire and wind? Two hundred? Five […]
Creation is Now
Water flows.Sometimes this flowing takes 100,000 years. Here’s the bed of a glacier from 12,000 years ago, under the deepest part of the continental ice. This was the divide. 2 miles of […]
Unity
At the top of the world, water, sky, light and mountains are one. Bowron Lake, Cariboo Mountains
Grassland is Water Too
Otter Marsh by Big Bar Lake
Heart of the Monster
Some images to contemplate, and some questions. Does the heart of the monster from whom the Nimíipuu sprang have a head? Do stones contemplated over 12,000 years remain just stones? Is this Itceyeye […]
Yellow Jacket and Ant
Ah, Yellow Jacket and Ant had a fight long ago, and just would not stop, no matter how much the trickster Iceyeeye (Coyote) tried to get them to stop. So, in frustration he turned them […]
Spirit Eels in the Grassland
A few weeks back I went to Asotin, where the Moray eels used to come up from the sea to spawn. Chief Looking Glass’s camp was there, at the fishery. Here’s the […]
Environmental Consciousness is Not Optional
Goethe, the poet, pointed out that all plants express one single energy, that opens through the life cycle of each plant as well as through the diversity of all plants. In his […]
The Beautiful One Digs a Hole
Here she is. 100 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s what she likes. That’s hole digging weather. First you drag a few boulders out of the way (note the upper legs doing just […]
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