In a way, yes. It’s a camera that sees as precisely as this, concentrating on light. It picks up patterns. Intriguingly, we do have to look at the patterns and see what […]
Can We Even See Water?
Pruning the Sun: The Intimate Relationship Between Fruit Trees and Words
Eighteen months ago, I showed you this image of a cherry tree in bloom. It was early in the pandemic and I was thinking of building a life that extended past it. […]
What is Thinking?
Is contemplation, preparation, memory and readiness thinking, like this: or is it something that comes before muscular action, which it holds in readiness, like this: Note that the muscles are visibly sculpted. […]
Hiding in Plain Sight
Garter snakes know how to do it. Mariposa Lily seeds do it. Water knows how to do it, too. In each case, appearances are deceiving, as an obvious thing is revealed (a […]
A Crop Unpicked, A Chance Missed, An Opportunity Awaiting
At first, at Antlers’ Beach this afternoon, that old salmon, deer and berry camp midway up the western shore of Okanagan Lake, I thought, where are the birds? The birds that could […]
The Tree Whisperer: My New Book on the Poetry of Tree Pruning
This is a beautiful book, that holds 51 years of my personal tree pruning experience, and a few thousand years of ancestral experience behind it. This hand-made book is just out from […]
A Head on the Deer Trail
Literally, a head…. … on the deer trail. What a shame that such a literal term as a head (the head of a ridge, a headland, and so on, all from head) […]
Minding the Earth
To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
Look, First: Updating Scientific Method
This is red osier dogwood, or Siberian dogwood, if you will. Have a look at her. Nice work with the star clusters there. Here’s another look: See that? When she grows in […]
Okanagan Falls in Shadow and Starlight
Here’s the bank and flat of the old lakebed high above Okanagan Falls, and the shore the first people here would have walked along in the back, some, what, 12,000 years ago. […]
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