The choke cherries are waiting for the bear to come. Not all of them, though. The tent caterpillars had their way with many of them in July. Ate all the leaves away, […]
Spring is Way Too Early
Little Bear in the Kinnikinnick
This spring cub is about to meet its first winter. First, berries. There are a couple of species of “bear berries” in our mountains in the Northwest, but these sparse ones are the […]
The Eye of the Earth
I looked into the eye of the Grand Prismatic Spring, and she looked back. Now I know whose country this is. Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone
Morning Frost
Another day of Autumn fishing waits in the Cariboo grasslands. Fish like living in the grass, too!
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 […]
Wild Crafting 101
To find currants in the crowded foliage of midsummer, just be there in the fall, long after the berries have gone to the birds. You’ll know where they are. Wild crafters know […]
Good Ideas Bear Repeating
Choke cherry. Starry False Solomon’s Seal. Only one is a tree.
Riding Across the Face of the Sun: the Case for Beauty
A sail is a solar-powered device, which inserts itself within the intersections of solar, aquatic and atmospheric energy, all of which ultimately formed either by the sun or by the forces of gravitational […]
Low Tech, Self-Sealing Water Storage Device
Each of these packages weighs about 150 grams. It has a protective skin, covered with moisture-preserving wax. It’s about 83% water, or 125 grams of water, or 1/2 cup of water. Yes, […]
Return to the Snake River at the End of Time
High above the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, in the southeastern reach of my plateau homeland, the Camas Prairie catches the sky. The camas once bloomed in blue fields here. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 