Every moment of the sun is as focus as any other moment. This is hard for a human eye. It’s used to burrowing through light, to throw it into dimensions, which it […]
The Sun is Not a Focussing Aparatus
Porcupine’s Favourite Colour
When medicine willow (the apricot-coloured one below) grows in deep shade, it collects a deep, reductive power. It is not the leaves you harvest but the inner bark, but it forms in […]
Around and Around and Around and Around We Go
The approach. The landing. The dance. The departure. And then the sun goes down. But then it comes up again. Very fun. Whee. ~ For my friend Theresa, who’s wondering today […]
Placer Mining the Grasslands
I’ve never seen a mariposa lily growing uphill from a stone. Uphill from a sagebrush, yes, but not a stone. They need well-drained soil, which means they grow best where water, snow […]
After the Rain Leaves the Rain Forest It Returns to the Sun
Every few years I get to go to the Hoh Rainforest. The trees are lovely, and the moss is gorgeous, but, really, it’s the rain that catches my heart. Here’s some of […]
Quick Light, Slow Light, Great Two-Sided Heart
The billions of years that are the intersection of Sun and Earth, which are all present at once and opening around us, can be viewed as new, arising in an instant and […]
Solar Tides
Morning Glory in the morning. Morning Glory in the evening. A Plant Doesn’t Have to Be Edible to Be Useful! If you plant morning glory (or let the weeds grow, as these […]
Beauty and the Bees
I spent the day yesterday at Tree to Me, an organic orchard in the Similkameen Valley. The apples were in bloom. Before grafting some apple trees and maintaining the grafts I put […]
Ancient Yew Among the Cedars
Deep in the Interior rainforest along Kootenay Lake grows an ancient yew. She is a beautiful one as the snow melts around her, that’s for sure. Yews are incredibly slow growing, but, […]
The Dry Dry Earth of Home
It would be nice to think of water soaking into the soil, and all that ground below us being recharged with rain and draining down to the lake and cycling around. The […]
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