Sometimes, it’s time to leave the weed and find true love. This is called hitting the streets. Or pounding the pavement. Or maintaining hope in the face of adversity. Because you never […]
Weevils in Love
Oceangoing Porcupine
High above the valley… …a rock catches the rain, and a saskatoon bush lives off of it. Not Much Cover Way Up Here Even the deer have to really work to find […]
Talking Green Water
On Tuesday, September 17, I will be presenting words and images in a discussion about green water and new agricultural opportunities in the Okanagan Valley. Green Water Slowing Global Warming in Vernon […]
The Birth of Language on Mara Lake
Two fish stare from deep in the subconscious, in rocks that naturally wear into patterns humanly recognizable as faces. Mara Lake It’s a good place for some magic. Here’s a couple other […]
A Preying Mantis and Her Eggs
She’s beautiful, isn’t she. Hiding out in the clover and all the grass stalks and the knapweed tangles and all. Preying Mantis in the Weeds She had a friend with her, but […]
Writing With Light
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Living in the Sun
Look at how the water bends around the feet of these water striders. It’s like walking on an electrical force field. We call it “reflections on a lake”, but this is the […]
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