A week ago at Big Bar Lake, winter began. The whole sky flew straight up. And then only quiet was left. Let’s call that readiness.
Winter Begins
How to Deal with Climate Change
When winter approaches, you can just leave. Or, you can leave your old stalks up in the sky to gather the snow. Or to spread seed. Of course, you can also hide […]
Picnic Time
The sow and her three cubs that hung around with us for September, up in their forest in the Cariboo, sure did give this old tree a whack. Kind of Corn on […]
Stories in the Forest Floor
When the forest is kept from infilling with so many trees it becomes the home of fire, the trees recede and greater stories are told. What a wondrous world underfoot. The narrative […]
How Deer Make Spiders
Some fine pruning. Look at all the trimming from last year! Love those new shoots and rose hips in the fall, mmmm. Oh, what’s this? Splendid! Guardian of the Big Bar Lake […]
In Praise of the Wind
Porcupine grass teaches us that it doesn’t exactly grow up. Instead, it use the wind to shift “up” through over 180°. What’s more, long after the grass has stopped eating the sun, […]
Thule Fever, or… Isn’t It Great to Be a Seasonal Creature
Look at the thules glow in the late season sun! No wonder summer houses were built out of this watery reed: watery coolness in the summer heat; heat as the fall drops […]
Aster: Queen of Many Worlds
Asters love the woodland and asters love the shore. Here’s some in the pine grass. What asters really love at this time of year is a bit of shade. Long after the […]
Clematis is Never Lost
Being lost is the state of not knowing where you are. It is also the state of not being found. The Brown Birch Trail at Big Bar Lake Wild clematis doesn’t worry […]
Green and Red Lightning
When spruce, rose and reeds meet on the shore, three different edges merge. Lightning By Any Other Name To the spruce, the edge of the lake is the edge of wet earth. […]
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