This is a story of a beautiful wild bee. It is also the story of a beautiful wild flower that she adores. First, the flower. In a few spots on the grasslands […]
Neon Green Bee
Ripping Out the Landscape Cloth for My Sisters
The ladies are on the ridge line. Not behind the ridge line. On the ridge line. See? And the gentlemen are down in the sagebrush, far below. Like this… I tell you, these guys […]
Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?
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 […]
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 […]
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