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 […]
A Revolving Botanical Garden
Cedar Waxwings Stuffing Themselves
Literally! They flew out of the neighbour’s locust tree in a whirr of wings, perched in the flowering crabapple tree across the road, and started stuffing themselves with apples. No sooner than […]
The Search for Life on the Inner Planets
Note: I have been convinced for some time now that the best descriptions of contemporary life are in Speculative Fiction. Here’s a first attempt at bringing them out of fiction into the […]
Amazing Water
Look what this stuff can do! Late Winter Puddle Showing the complexity of water’s relationship to energy. The energy of the stars is here with us. Maybe it’s not a good idea […]
Magpie, My Brother!
Dogs are man’s best friend. So it is said. It’s true, too. Humans and dogs evolved together. You could say, people became human by interacting with dogs, and dogs became dogs by […]
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 […]
Snow? No Problem!
Cheatgrass shows us the way to the future: harvest snow. Cheatgrass at the Edge of Winter There is no need to wait for the rains or to finance high pressure water systems […]
Spring Cropping and Water Saving
Before the snow fell late last November, I planted my spinach. On February 8, when I made the following image, the snow had been gone for 3 days. Spinach is Up! Around August […]
Porcupine My Brother!
Here’s an example of porcupine cherry tree pruning: Porcupine Art on Grassland Choke Cherry Instead of brush strokes, thinks tooth strokes. Think: playing a cello with your teeth. And no strings. And […]
The Hunter and the Hunted (and the Lovers, too)
So, I’m strolling along, whistling and happy in the sun, when one of the hawks that are so busy hunting in these snowy days leaps off a power pole and hassles a […]
