The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
Walking With Coyote and Looking at the Stars
Walking through the bunchgrass. Walking through the sagebrush. Walking over the bed of an ancient sea. Looking at a supernova. Looking at planetary clusters. Looking at the solar system. Looking at the […]
Oh to Be an Eagle in the Springtime
Yesterday, I showed an image of the heron rookery in Vernon, which is, truly, a beautiful thing, and called it Oh to Be a Heron in the Springtime. Click here to see […]
Good News for the Butterflies
On Friday, I felt like the earth was one butterfly and one flower away from death, and showed you an image of a single butterfly larva on a single yellow bell… on […]
Good News for Bluebirds on Monday!
I was talking last week about the loss of habitat for Western Mountain Bluebirds. Well, thank god for electric drills! And many deep thanks to the man who came by and got this […]
The Earth is Dying (And Not Because of Global Warming)
I went up the hill, and I found one sagebrush buttercup. Take a look, so you’ll be present in this scene. It’s important. It’s about the state of the earth and the state […]
Learning to Fly
If you take an old apple tree and add a bit of the sky … Western Mountain Bluebird … on a day when the ocean is flying overhead on its way to […]
The Bluebirds are Here: Part 2
A year ago I volunteered to prune a neighbour’s cherry orchard in exchange for some cherries. After all, I was short of fruit trees and she had recently lost her husband. This […]
Sagebrush Buttercup in Its Natural Environment
Sagebrush buttercup, the first of the grassland wildflowers is blooming in the US Okanogan, and up into Canada, on the south slopes, on sandy hills south of the big lakes. Note the […]
Lichen and Bunchgrass in Harmony
It starts with a drop, of water you might say, but I think it’s a drop of life. Look how both bunchgrass and lichen on this glacial erratic repeat the patterns of […]
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