My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 2
Welcome to the second summary of the first year of my explorations in revisioning the goals of literature and the relationship of place and environment in the dry country east of the […]
Invasion and Defence in the Tomato Patch
Oh, I have beautiful troubles. First the scene … … and my beautiful defender … Those tomatoes are about 3 centimetres long. … and her handy-dandy repair job … What, you might […]
Green Zebra Tomato Juice Celebration!
Here is a joyous interlude, to fulfill a promise … Green Zebra Juice And a green zebra, too. So, the yellow tomato juice tasted like the sun, and I wondered if this […]
Curiosity and Tomatoes
The problem is curiosity, way back in the spring … The Day’s Harvest Now that it is fall, the solution is curiosity, too… Yellow Tomato Juice Waiting for a Friend Beautiful, huh! […]
Trees Making Art
Trees making art? Yes, yesterday, at the Bishop Bird Sanctuary on the shore of Kalamalka Lake. The event was a poetry reading. This was the opening (and closing) act. Our artist was […]
Nuclear Apples at Hanford Town
The last free-flowing part of the American stretch of the Columbia River takes place in the former Hanford Engineering District, managed by the US Army from 1943 onward in order to produce […]
Serendipity
The peach comes from China, and got out on the Silk Road to the Persians, who gave it to the Romans, who called it the Persian Apple (which got shortened to Peach, […]
Big Game Hunting
Ah, the wild cherry trees that sprout up like weeds on the edge of the crop lands. Here’s a red-tailed hawk showing what those things are for. Red Tailed Hawk in His […]
Just the Right Number of Trees
In the grasslands, one is enough. One Ponderosa Pine Perfect It gives ants a world, lightning a chance to grab onto something (lightning likes that), deer a dry bed, and birds a […]
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