Perspective matters. Was that light playing on water? Is this, below? They are one, but only when my body and mind are one. They are different at the same time. This difference is […]
First Steps Towards the New Sun
Mother Sculpin
Let us praise the little rock fish, the Columbia Sculpin, cottus hubsi… … and let us praise the snow that reveals her on the shore of Okanagan Lake, that 135 kilometre long story […]
The Spirit of Birds and Trees
Watching the magpies watch me today, in their way of leapfrogging from tree to tree to fencepost to shrub to shrub to post up the slope, always 70 metres apart, always keeping […]
The Earth Puts Her Roots in the Sky
I want to draw a correspondence today between leaves and soil. I think it’s pretty cool. First, here are some leaves doing just fine without soil. Welcome to mullein. When it finishes […]
Living Soil
Here’s some soil: It’s a series of shelters, which capture water, minerals and heat, and amplify the conditions for light and seed germination, in the warm area in the first millimetres above the […]
Hard Water
No, it’s not ice.
Water and Sun Everywhere Dancing
Sun in the lake. Sun in the sky’s lake. Lake and sun flooding over the land … I made these images to show you what the earth looks like underground, but the images […]
Real Plants Don’t Do Drugs
In a petro-state, these are called dead leaves. In a petro-state, the image below is called life. Look closer. Those are the green leaves of petroleum-based nitrogen fertilizer, those are. Life, however, looks like […]
Gravity Pools
Soil. Not soil. 9 years, nothing growing yet. Soil Not soil. Nothing even germinates here. Soil. You find soil where water pools. (Rocks, too.) It is life — a gravitational effect that […]
Giant Rye Grass in Its Glory
Grass is a creature of the wind. Of the wind. It’s even pollinated by the wind. It is a sheath for water drawn up by light. It streams in the air. Is […]
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