Sure, the story of carbon emissions is the global warming story, but there’s also the story of the warming that comes from urbanization, and there’s the story that comes from the warming […]
Let’s Get Serious About Global Warming
Crossing the Road While the World Burns
Well, the sidewalk, too. And from the other side. Crickets, look out. Oh, see that shadow? The world is burning away, but the sun has made it through the smoke today.
Gardening is Just Too Hard
Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at […]
Weeds at Work
Say hi to Queen Anne’s Lace. It is listed as a noxious weed. I mean, try grazing a cow in this pasture. Still, who defines these things? Not the lettuce […]
The Voice of a Great Cascadian River
Chapman’s Bar: a gravel bar in the Fraser River.As the heat breaks, the rain begins in the ancestral homeland of the grassland peoples. Some rocks never dried out. The spring river made […]
By These Fish We Take Our Measure
From the shore where fresh water mingles with salt …. …and the tide comes in and out and humans erect the stories of themselves they have always lifted into the sky… … […]
Human Young in a Line
Social training in its natural scale. Summer Kids Activity Group
Houses Made of Grass
Old Growth Bunchgrass. Nimiipuu long house. The canvas was a modern addition. Traditionally, these communal houses would be made of reeds. Perhaps you can see the model? Look again? The […]
Wasps: Workers in the Furnace of the Sun
It takes a particle of light 100,000 years to rise from the core of the sun to its surface, eight minutes to make it to Earth, and no time at all to complete […]
Loons in Trees
Trees in the lake … … and loons in the trees. That’s good. ~ Otter Marsh, Big Bar Lake
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