Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
At Home in the Earth Community
The Earth Puts Her Roots in the Sky
I want to draw a correspondence today between leaves and soil. I think it’s pretty cool. First, here are some leaves doing just fine without soil. Welcome to mullein. When it finishes […]
Living Soil
Here’s some soil: It’s a series of shelters, which capture water, minerals and heat, and amplify the conditions for light and seed germination, in the warm area in the first millimetres above the […]
Hard Water
No, it’s not ice.
Just Like Feeding Grain to Chickens!
Lichen: 400,000,000 years of two-species partnership and counting. Fir needles: 280,000,000 years and counting. That’s a gap of 120,000,000 years, when lichens got their acids from rocks, rather than from trees, which […]
Sagebrush and Global Cooling
The image below shows a water strider. It uses the intermolecular bonds of water to hold itself up. If you look closely you can see the water bend beneath it, as if […]
When Volcanoes Crumble Flowers Come
When the earth is spoken of in its own terms it becomes poetry and is a language for spirit, like this… When rock catches sun and snow, lupins sprout and sagebrush buttercups and […]
Capturing Light
I’ve noticed before that leaves that have finished photosynthesis give off more light than they receive, because their photoreceptive structures, which trap photons of light, bounce them around about twenty times before […]
The Art That Insects Make
In the summer, light strikes the leaves of the dogwoods unevenly, as they flit about in their environment of light and shadow filtering through other leaves that move and shift with sun […]
Balance
Today, words in praise of bunch grass. The roots of this blue-bunched wheatgrass fill the space between the plants.The soil is their sky. They reach out into it for the clouds of […]
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