It breathes. Hengifoss Waterfall Shaking off Its Ice … … and taking a deep breath. The old words are best. In fact, today the Highlands were being scoured clean of old snow. […]
What a Living Earth Does
Slow Photography, Light Lithography, and Silence
Take a look at the photograph of the sun the lichen on this Icelandic rock took over many years.The sun doesn’t have to be bright to shine. Today the sky was an […]
The Solar Horses of Iceland
You see, it goes like this. There are human people and there are other people, and some of those are horses, except it’s not clear which ones, the human people or the […]
Humans on Drugs
Humans are addicted. This group of highly social animals that operates on the assumption that it has free will is as tightly a part of ecosystems as the plants in this image […]
Four Dimensional Photography
That’s right: 4-D. The patterns in this stream are not ripples of light tossed around by waves on the water’s surface. The surface of this tiny stream at Kjarvalhvammur, Iceland is covered […]
The Invention of Nature
Nature didn’t always exist. Unlike most manufactured products, though, it wasn’t stamped out of a plastic mould in a factory in China, or even poured into a mould in an old factory […]
Urban Planning Back to Basics
You know how when you’re making the run from the town you live in to the town you want to get to and there’s this great big empty space in between, and […]
Where Words Make Sense
Every day I rise 15 minutes earlier with the earlier sun. Today that was around 4:30 a.m. It’s not the light, but a different pull. When I draw the curtains, the sun […]
Canada in Turmoil
The 20th Century was supposed to belong to Canada, said former Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier. Well, that’s over. Now it is time for the earth. Okanagan Falls Vineyard in the Fall The […]
Forests Are Sacred
Some forests are not planted to be logged. Here, for example, is a birch forest in Iceland, planted a century ago, with the express purpose of creating a country through poetry and […]
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