What you plant is part of an interspecies conversation between plants and plants and plants and people. At the same time that the saskatoons are subtly blooming on the hills, the magnolias […]
In Praise of Saskatoon Blossoms
The hills are bright with saskatoons. Isn’t that fine! They have the scent of pear blossoms. If you haven’t smelled pear blossoms lately, well, they smell like fresh cream and wildflower […]
What if Newton Moved Here and Met a Rainbow Face to Face?
Rainbow with a starling. Rainbow with trees. And what would Newton see? God. Mind you, he’d miss the bird and the tree. Oops. Isaac, a human body looks at a rainbow. That’s the point. […]
Saskatoon Petals Falling on Stone
A self portrait.
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
Walking With Coyote and Looking at the Stars
Walking through the bunchgrass. Walking through the sagebrush. Walking over the bed of an ancient sea. Looking at a supernova. Looking at planetary clusters. Looking at the solar system. Looking at the […]
Why Art Matters
Refraction is the process of light bending when it strikes the edge of a translucent medium, such as glass or water. What you see below on the lupines in my garden is […]
Robins Are Art
Great choreographed staging. Here’s a female. Here’s her guy.The next person who comes along and says that art is a human artifact, I tell you, I’ll take them for a walk. That’s what […]
Oh To Be a Heron in the Springtime
The Okanagan hosts the world’s only urban heron rookery. Things are full of action there at the moment. The Rookery, Vernon The rookery, however, is on private land, surrounded by tire dealerships, […]
The Language of Crows
I feel this language in my bones, but it’s not in words… … or mathematics, as is this one, but what different mathematics they are! (And they’re not about numbers. You have […]
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