Sad news. My beautiful lake, with its jewels of melting ice reflecting the sky … is a bit of a sewer, too, when the freezing line gets in close to shore and […]
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part One)
Human Nature
What is nature? I’ve been asking people, and they’ve been looking at me strangely, and have said things like, well, you know, green stuff. Sometimes people answer like this, too: natural things. Or […]
I Am the Mountain
Today, let’s go on a little journey to my home valley, the Similkameen. I’d like to show you the link between a part of the earth, my recent posts on photography and […]
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with […]
Memory and Life
Ice has memory. Every moment of its long creation. That memory interacts with the present. Blue Sky in the Ice Is thought any different? Is art any different? Is beauty? Sleep […]
Discovering Blue
The blue you see here is the sky early in the morning, when the sun is white and comes in nearly horizontally from the east. Here’s a better view… As you can […]
What to Look for On Mars
The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
The Lesson of the Snow
The days are short. By 3 pm there’s little light left. If I had any sense, I’d leave the camera at home. Fortunately, I have none. Look what I learned today at […]
Water and Light, Part 2
This post is for anyone who loves to look at water or who enjoys being made out of the stuff, for Sigrun in Norway, who gets to live right beside it in […]
Water and Air
In water, things achieve a true essence… That’s because on the earth, the sun meets water. It creates trees, and those other trees, that are like looking at myself in a language […]
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