Five days ago, a billion frogs crawled out of the Big Bar Lake wetland, and sunned on the Otter Marsh trail, while looking for some mud to overwinter. Yes, those are […]
Fingernails, the Cariboo Way
Memory in the Grand Coulee
When people first looked out of this rock shelter in the Grand Coulee, there would have been no scree on the cliffs on the far shore of this ancient river, but there would […]
Raven Steals the Moon
A pigeon laid it.
Life on Earth
Water flows overhead. Land turns below. Between them … … sun and wind are one, and gravity moves water … … as if it were the molten metal at the earth’s core. This […]
Suburban Body Painting
Every house is a representation of a human body… … including social representations of that body … … and its cognitive sense of itself, inviolate in otherwise empty and invisible space… So, […]
Grasshopper Bee Fly
She’s beautiful. She has lonnnnnng grasshopper legs. And a sharp, beady eye like a packrat. See what I mean about the legs? She loves flowers, for sure, but she also has a […]
The Old Swimming Hole
So much for a high water year. But if you were a duck, eh!
Butterfly Spook
Claws. Or beauty. The second is how humans see.
It’s Only a Desert Because We Killed the Water Keepers
Sobbing water. Sad water (30 minutes from public sobbing). Sadder water. (32 minutes from open sobbing.) Happy water. Yay! Love a beaver today!
Blue Bunch Wheatgrass and Gravity
The blue bunch wheatgrass of the West, the signature grass of the Intermontane Grasslands, the beautiful one herself, stands straight and tall, until her seeds grow heavy and weigh her down, but […]
Okanagan Okanogan 