I met a beautiful person yesterday evening, in the north part of town. Here is half of her habitat in an unreasonably wet year … BX Creek just south of Swan Lake […]
Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?
The Importance of Colour
Oh, the ironies. A girl spends thousands of generations evolving the capacity to change colour to match the shades of individual grassland flowers, and then? Well, they die, and weeds take their […]
Prickly Pear Cactus
And today we stop breathing. Once upon a time, there was a prickly pear cactus. It lived high up on a warm rock outcropping in a cold place, and was as happy […]
Needle-and-Thread Grass
Today, just a little love song for needle-and-thread grass, a grass so thin that it nearly vanishes when the light burns through it. Not for needle-and-thread grass a story of the wind. […]
Weeds and Water and Wilderness
For a few weeks, I’ve booted around vineyards from the Rhone to Mosel, trying to get a glimpse of the art of farming, as it was practiced when it was still a […]
The Nature of Nature
I think we need a new word for nature. It’s so very hard to find. I mean, I’ve found trees and water and rocks aplenty, but that’s not Nature. That’s rocks and […]
Life Without Oil
There was a time in the world in which technology and the work of the planet were intimately related. It was hardly romantic, but it has come to be known that way, […]
The Persistence of the Universe
Tired of watering and mowing, and thinking of, maybe, helping out the over-stressed earth a bit by sitting in the boat and watching the wind play over the water like that wheat […]
The Beauty of Colour
Sometimes I travel a long distance to learn what was always there speaking to me out of the world. In this case, it’s a trip to England, and flowers and ferns in […]
Spiritual Revolutions
There was a time in the world, long before science was even a newborn in diapers, when the earth was considered to be a spiritual space. To organize it, all you had […]
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