Words matter. In fact, words are matter, because they set up the boundaries of human activity. For example, what is this stuff? They Call it Water Hmmph. It’s not water. It’s a stream. […]
The Beauty of Streams
Muskrats That Live in the Trees
This is an awfully wonderful planet — sometimes delightfully so. Here is a typical reed dweller… Red Winged Blackbird Giving Me the Eye The weak colour of his wing patch indicates that […]
The Beauty of Water
Water is life. Life is also water. The relationship goes both ways. Here’s some water…… and here’s some more, on the same mountain on the same day… The first one is water […]
A Revolving Botanical Garden
Today, I am proud to be a guest on the website, My Botanical Garden. I hope that my explorations in knowing the land by walking it daily, camera in hand, will bring the […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
Is Anyone Home?
There’s a new language in town. It’s a bit like listening in a mirror. To help you hear it, here’s an older language… Bird Footprints Among the Dinosaurs Royal Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, […]
Three Suns, One Path
So, you know, I’m hanging out with my buddies … … waiting for the apples of springtime, the ones that have bloomed in the basement and which turn to stars when thrown […]
Winter Sunset
For weeks, I have been growing increasingly excited about the luminous, directionless white light that has been filtering down through the clouds. Yesterday, I pointed out how the sun is not yellow, […]
Staring at the Sun
Whoever said you couldn’t look at the sun didn’t live underwater. January Sun at Noon, Okanagan Landing Whoever it was said that the sun was yellow, doesn’t live on the earth in […]
Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!
It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]
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