Life in the sky… … vanishes (This is a form of ripening.) At first it is nowhere to be found. Bones are everywhere. The sun has burnt everything away.Not everything. There are bee caves. […]
Try This on Mars, I Dare You
Beautiful Paper Wasps
A weed will do. Or a board up against a roof. Life is an amazing thing.
Beautiful Tent Caterpillars
It’s the time of year when tent caterpillars are in their glory, making art out of the choke cherries in the roadside ditches, along the walking trails, and in the creek beds […]
The Fish That Shake the Mountain Trees to Their Cores
The mountains before the fish get at them. And after. Note the newest ring of fish ripples in the lower centre of the image. Both are the “real” mountains. How […]
Life (and chipmunks)
Fire comes from the centre of the solar system. Water comes from the edge of the solar system. They meet on earth. You would think they might extinguish each other, but no. […]
Why Good Science Matters
Yesterday, I wrote this: It is time to stop taking the world apart and to acknowledge that what we seek is what we will find. It is that kind of universe. I […]
Vertical Rivers and Walking on Water
Just look at this aspen pouring up into the sun. Aspen Copse with Beetle-Killed Fire Pine, Big Bar Lake My sister. To Newtonian science, this is an image of organized physical processes viewed by […]
I Love Water
Big Bar Lake, with Damselfly The green colour comes from the bright lake bottom, which is the remains of the bed of an underground glacial river, made of tiny, flat, oval pebbles ground […]
Teaching Children the (Hard) Way
When water systems are used as reservoirs … Rosemund Lake, Flooded … people move between the trees, and are dwarfed by them.Here’s how we teach our children that… Children’s Playground, Chief Joseph Dam, Washington The […]
Irony in the Garden
Here’s my front yard. Note the flowers I have planted instead of a lawn. It has been a very exciting place lately. Dozens of species of bees and many species of beetles […]
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