It’s good to get out of the house and see the world getting on without us. On Friday, it was an eared grebe in the lily pads on Gardom Lake. It was […]
We Left the House and Garden and Went to the Lily Pads and What Did We See?
The Beautiful Creatures Who Put Up With Us
This poplar is inspiring. It’s hard to say which is more beautiful, her young bark or her old bark. To be young and old at the same time, that’s not a human […]
One Bird Can Make Your Day
When is an invasive species not, well, an invasive species? Chinese Elm Fooling Around With Light and Shadow Because it Can I mean, a really invasive species, with a kazillion seeds that […]
Beautiful Slugs. Yes. Beautiful Slugs on the Dry Hill.
Above this dry hill, the hawks roam. On its crest, the Saskatoons are blooming around old wetlands. The water is just over the hill. Lower down, the water comes in rain now, […]
Where is the Sun? On Earth!
See, here’s the thing about the globe in the sky. You can make it yours, as the Oregon grape does in bloom… … or you can gather it in as the […]
The People of the Wind
Willows are creatures of the sky. Appropriately, if I wander through them and look up, I see the sky through them, broken into small gaps. That is appropriate. The sun is a […]
The Amazing Long-Distance Relationships Between Bee, Flower and Bird
To gather pollen, a bee is completely exposed — easily spotted from a distance. Their defense is to flee when there is any shadow passing over the yellow cushion of the flower. […]
The Art of the Tarp
Art doesn’t get better than this. For the ghost ship look, use white. For a more classic look, use blue. For a real supertanker ghost ship look, make the car white and […]
No, It’s Not Winter
It’s only winter in town. The Earth has no time for that kind of thing!
Farming the Atmosphere
Very slowly, and with great drama and beauty, the atmosphere breaks bedrock to bits. Why are we not farming the air? It is doing this everywhere, with a bit of help from […]
