In Palouse Falls, the world of the heart below the falls is separated from the world of dream above it. Here is a thistle plant at dusk in the world of the […]
When the Sun Sets It’s Time to Make a Bed of Wild of Thistles
Sacred Palouse Falls
The sacred pipe of Palouse Falls is lit by the sun … … even while the moon draws its stories onward as smoke … Peregrine Falcon Perch Under the Early Morning […]
Solar Power and Social Power
Solar power looks like this … Hydroelectric power looks like this … Magpie Hill, Bella Vista Road, Vernon Got that? Life looks like this … Harvesting a Solar Conversion Machine Death looks […]
Harold Discovers His Brain
Sticking out of a hill, where a glacier left it 12,000 years ago. I wondered where it had got to. 😉
Mapping the Formation of the Solar System, Now
In honour of my 500th post in this exploration… The Okanagan Okanagan Nuclear Reactor at 500! With a nuclear engineer, even! Hurrah! …I’d like to ask a question of the ideal university. […]
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
The Ethics of Science, Art and Light
Here’s some mullein blooming against a backdrop of grasses gone to seed. The seeds represent four months of light transformed into starches and stored in the seeds of the grass, which show up […]
The Biggest Mystery of All
Why yellow pollen? Green Sweat Bee in the Chicory On Her Way Home Why white pollen? Wasp Bathing in White Chicory Pollen No Yellow Pollen Cheating in the Mullein for Her I […]
When is a Weed a Weed? When Isn’t It?
Scotch thistle is listed as a noxious weed. To whom? Not to Western Swallowtails tattered by the wind. Not to green sweat bees. Not to bumblebees and Western Swallowtails at once. Maybe […]
Slow Food: Robin Waiting for Dinner
This robin’s first brood were two such big louts that I think they burst their nest. Certainly, they fell to the ground, where she fed them for a week until they were […]
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