For years I’ve tried to get a good magpie photo, but those magpies are smart and can spot a camera from 300 metres. But I met a kind magpie on Saturday. Here […]
Thank You, Magpie!
The Return of the Water People
Coots love the water so much that they only leave for the deep south (100 kilometres away) when things get too rough in January. Then they come up and literally hug the […]
The Many Faces of Ice on Okanagan Lake
Slowly, the cold is leaving Okanagan Lake. It has much to say on the way.
The Black Moons of Mid-Winter
Fools call these moons asian pears and eat them before they are ripe. She was once the golden sun of September. Now she is ripe and oozing mysterious sugar. This is fruit for the […]
The Beautiful Temporary Estuaries of Winter
Ice freezes in flat sheets down on the old fjord lake. A few days later, it is broken up by the wind, in angular chunks, as the repeated rising and falling, linear […]
The Palette of Saskatoons Through the Year
Isn’t it very fine. There are the saskatoons of winter, with bark in a palette of rose and plum. Then there are the saskatoons of springtime. Look at their palette now! (This […]
Singing the Sun So Beautifully
Here’s a paper birch singing the sun today. Here Here are the notes for her sun song put into a ladder of spirit. This is the voice of the universe. Here are […]
Chickadee Photograph
So, the chickadees come and eat the weed seeds. This is part of the ecology of the new grasslands. It’s like moving to Mars, except Mars comes to you. Still, tasty, and […]
Sure, Call it Water
But please first register that it’s alive (and often with birds). This is the comet formerly known as Okanagan Lake. ~ Note: these are colour images shot into the intersection of the sun […]
The Sun Doesn’t Fall
This is not a metaphor. It is a projection. Across 135,000,000 kilometres of travel through emptiness, the sun reforms. The earth focusses it. Call that fire, that ancient word for coals: red. Call […]
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