Three weeks of work lead to a rush to get the garden built before the snow, eh. Here I am yesterday afternoon. The old garden beds are in the bags, waiting to […]
The Garden Comes Along in the Snow
The Eye’s Travels Through Late Autumn Grass
This is the time of year when the grass only intermittently catches the light. Its ability, however, to combine visual and emotional parts of the observing human mind, is wondrous. These effects […]
The Great Push of Life
Look at the filberts in my garden, hanging out their catkins. For them, the great push has begun. This is their springing up, their spring. And here on the hill is the […]
Rushing to Get the Spring’s Work Done Before Winter
It would be easier to plant grass. The last garden boxes lasted seven years. Time for a refit!
The Best Hours of the Year
I had an unusual start in life. When the sky got like this at this time of year (and even darker at solstice), I was out pruning fruit trees, like this apple […]
And the Salmon Come Too
The twisted, reaching trees… … from whom we learned our bodies … … reflect in the water, just as we reflect in them. And there in the mind and all the deep […]
Gathering is “Instinctual”
When picking rose hips… … pick the ones that offer themselves to you. Those are the good ones. You’ll know which ones. The others are just mean. This is actually a syilx […]
Seeing by Touch
The time for playing in the woods is over. So many powerful dreams end with the wonder and practical reality of the frost. But then a new door opens. One becomes attuned […]
Red Orach Goes Travelling
I sent my friend Paul some red orach … Planted by gold finches in August, harvested by them in May … seed to plant at Pleasant Camp on the Haines Highway, a […]
The Power of Cascadia
The trees of Cascadia are ancient, yet so new compared to the mountains… yet it is the mountains, living, that the trees watch. St. Elias Mountains, Cascadia These change power the biogregion. […]
