The birds left a few hawthorns. Just so does the year begin on the deer trail high up on the hill. Hawthorns are a part of the grass. Fir trees, too, all […]
The Glory of Winter Sun
Walking in the Sun
In the post-marxist cultural world of contemporary art (don’t fool yourself, it exists outside of North Korea), the sun on the saskatoon bush below is not considered art, nor is the moment […]
The Tree Climbing Beavers of Lower BX Creek!
Some people are messy when they eat. They leave stuff all over the place. This is a chunk of maple that they floated down through a culvert and 200 metres downstream into […]
Learning from Birds
Gulls face the waves. Ducks face humans. Gulls blend in. Ducks don’t. When gulls get in a line, it is so that they can each face the water. If they’re not facing […]
Happy New Year!
The folks down the road have been making magic to see the New Year in with true artfulness! Obviously, with a send-off like that, it’s going to be a great year. Blessings to […]
Think Big
Aren’t cat tails cool! They fold over themselves, layer upon layer. When you see this, you could invent a tradition of basket- and mat-making, and could build houses out of rushes and […]
Seeing in the Dark
The poet Goethe argued that colour is formed by the boundaries between light and darkness. He argued that it was possible to see in the dark — that colour (or light) were […]
The Humans are Insane
Why Do Geese Have Long Necks? It’s because of alfalfa fields in ancient lake bottoms that drifted into gentle curves in post-glacial winds. It used to be that Canada Geese travelled south […]
Forget Summer Sunsets
Go for the winter ones! Poplars Under the Eye of the Snow And, five minutes later … Darkness helps.
The Beauty and Presence of Trees
I love trees. No one has yet explained why they do what they do, or how, but just look at them doing it! There are intellectual tools for analyzing them down through […]
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