The blue sky? The yellow bird? The green pine? Female American Goldfinch in a Lodgepole Pine the Beetles Missed Big Bar Lake Hardly. Those are properties of human sight, and of American Goldfinch […]
Writing With Light
This is Why People Are Afraid of the Dark
Remember those beautiful pictures of the night? The ones I showed you yesterday because I got spooked by noises in the night on the hill and wandered back home and discovered my […]
The Garden at Night
Ah, the August Moon, with her old face above the black hills, riding clouds as she has since humans first looked up to the night. Nectarine Moon I used to walk out […]
Climbing with the Bears
Wanna? Up you go! You have to hang on, though. With every leg you have… As training, I’d advise you not to trim your fingernails for awhile. Hang on, now! ~ Otter Pond […]
Water, Time and Loons
Ah, what great stuff water is. When the sun mixes with it like spiritual smoke, you can sort of see through it… It looks a bit like a polaroid photograph of the […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
When the Sun Goes Under the Earth
… and comes back up, it looks like this. Carpenter Ant, Big Bar Lake, Chilcotin Basalt I have seen these guys walk through walls of flame and across red-hot coals. That’s the […]
Photography as Sculpture
Each photograph, if kept long enough, becomes art. Hawk, with Its Back to Art … for now. This is a fascinating truism about the relationship between art, technology and time. Here’s what […]
Traffic Jam on the Coyote Highway
So, I’m tripping down my favourite Coyote Road, right, admiring the black choke cherries and paying way too much attention to a hawk that’s taking a vole home and is getting harried […]
Sculpting the Body with Flowers and Stars
Which is more beautiful? Gloriosa daisies on July 10? Beauty, after all, is balance and function, united as one. All bright and new. The Okanagan Okanogan Fusion Reactor, Third Year Or Gloriosa […]
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