The mariposa lily and sweat bee dance is late this year, by calendar reckoning, but just on time by the measurement of sun and rain.I’m thrilled that they are here!
Mariposa Lily and Her Gardener
Don’t, Just Don’t!
I mean, don’t cut into a hill on the syncline side of the mountains. The water leaks out, and then ……mosquitoes. See these guys? Don’t come back tomorrow, I say. Sheesh.
June 24 And Summer Is So Over
Well, either that or it means nothing here in the grasslands of the North American North West. Beautiful, though.The way it busts up concrete is also beautiful, don’t you think?
Don’t Think So Much. Stay Awhile Instead!
As a writer, I’m pretty used to changing points of view. For instance, we could have another look at that line by reading, “The guy with the grey hair and the green […]
What is Wild?
Is this smoke bush wild? No. It was planted to give some red colour to a lot of green shrubs. Is the fact that it is growing a “wild” characteristic? Perhaps, but wouldn’t […]
Frankenstein, Humans, Art and God
There is a seed in the pile of broken glass below. To put it another way, humans see. The earth seeds. They are the same thing. See? Making Seed: Male Sumac Flowers in […]
Abandoning Wildness
Mourning Cloak drinking at the mud hole (leaking pipe)… Western Swallowtail in the vetch (feral forage crop). Old one at the watering hole (irrigation leakage and trail flood.) Things have come […]
Raven Talks
Here’s a raven I met on Wednesday. “It’s just a human projection, to say that ravens have intentions or speak,” someone told me on Thursday. Well, for humans who don’t live on […]
Time Travel Among the Volcanoes
Oh, just a little bit of rock blasted away to make the road cut a couple miles north of Satus Pass, just before cresting the burns and coming down to the Columbia River […]
Spiritual Technology Part 3
The Columbia River rolls to the sea, despite the attempts of Woody Guthrie to turn it into a loaf of bread, a pound of bologna, and an atomic bomb. (Read about Woody […]
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