Creating a tension with gravity is key. Blue-bunched wheat grass and big sage.
There’s More Than One Way to Find the Light
Harold Rhenisch
www.haroldrhenisch.com
Augury
Is it possible to still read the old signs our ancestors read before they read words? Let’s look… Two mushrooms, one white, one dark, both dusted as if with snow, like the moon […]
Fun With Light
“Light travels in straight lines.” Yes, if observed from a science that measures straight lines. No, if observed from within light, within the world, within gravity or within perception. The statement is meant […]
Talking with Rilke Talking with the Earth Talking with the Sky
Here’s an image of a fairly typical hillside on the west side of Yellowstone. Earth is fire: not just her core, but all of her. The steam, the wetland sedges and reeds, […]
Better Than a Zen Garden
Imagine if hills were opened to create this instead of roads or shopping malls. Drilled and blasted bedrock in a quarry, with a limestone spring from the seabeds high above, a young […]
An Anthropocene Idyll in the Okanagan Petro State
Ah, lunchtime in the park. The joys of nature in the beautiful Okanagan Valley.Sure. New word: anthrobscene. (You know, you might disagree with me on that, but, really, if this is what […]
What Do You Call a Photograph When It’s Not Made With Light?
Photography: writing with light. A more anglo-saxon suggestion is sun print. There’s more to them than prints on paper. See that? That snow buckwheat is light written or (im)printed on metamorphic bedrock, or, actually, […]
Winter is Here
It’s not just that winter is coming. Its first breath is as much winter as its depths. We remember ourselves in it. We rise up out of the grass.
Teaching Gravity in a 21st Century Classroom
First, two pictures of gravity. I don’t mean the effects of gravity. I mean gravity. Gravity is not mathematics. It’s either here in these pine cones or it doesn’t exist. Water carries […]
It’s Mango Time!
We love you, stag horn sumac. But we love you, smooth sumac more. Oh, Staghorn, you come from Virginia. You knew Hiawatha in your youth. But smooth sumac, daughter […]
Okanagan Okanogan 