They leave a little grain behind … … and till it in with their digging, and it grows among the flowers.
Big Payback for Feeding Winter’s Birds
The Thing About Abstract Art
It isn’t abstract. Concrete Forms of Water, Mass, Gravity and Light Nice work by the raindrops, eh! “Abstraction” is just a cultural term, signifying a preference to live within a certain group of […]
Beautiful Wasp at Home
Somebody loves snow buckwheat. Best not to plant lavender in its place, don’t you think?
Dawn on Earth
It is a wave breaking on a shore. It is sifted by trees that hold the night within themselves. The sun enters the water, and shines from there. (In the image below, it catches a […]
Why Beauty?
Beauty is a signature that a human was present, using its bodily senses to measure the precise balances in a landscape and to align its body with them. Some beautiful early morning […]
Breathing Dragons Breathing
When lakes take to the air, they get curious … …and I am glad (which is the completion of curiosity, in this odd binary language we are trying to converse in.) It […]
Fingernails, the Cariboo Way
Five days ago, a billion frogs crawled out of the Big Bar Lake wetland, and sunned on the Otter Marsh trail, while looking for some mud to overwinter. Yes, those are […]
Life on Earth
Water flows overhead. Land turns below. Between them … … sun and wind are one, and gravity moves water … … as if it were the molten metal at the earth’s core. This […]
Blue Bunch Wheatgrass and Gravity
The blue bunch wheatgrass of the West, the signature grass of the Intermontane Grasslands, the beautiful one herself, stands straight and tall, until her seeds grow heavy and weigh her down, but […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 15: Time for Thyme!
We don’t need lawn. Or gravel. But what about thyme? No mowing. No watering. The thyme below is just growing at the side of the road. Flowers for the bees! Something for the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 