Look what this stuff can do! Late Winter Puddle Showing the complexity of water’s relationship to energy. The energy of the stars is here with us. Maybe it’s not a good idea […]
How Could Anyone Want More Sun Than This?
The sun starts out as perfect as can be, burning the hydrogen of a star that shone before it and exploded long ago. Out here, where other bits of that star accumulated […]
Snow? No Problem!
Cheatgrass shows us the way to the future: harvest snow. Cheatgrass at the Edge of Winter There is no need to wait for the rains or to finance high pressure water systems […]
Birds at Work
Want to get your colour palette right? Follow the birds! They make art, too. Staghorn Sumac Think of it like a paintbrush. And what do the birds make of it? Jackson Pollock, […]
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
Winter Sunset
For weeks, I have been growing increasingly excited about the luminous, directionless white light that has been filtering down through the clouds. Yesterday, I pointed out how the sun is not yellow, […]
Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!
It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]
Glaciation is Our Name
Did you think the glaciers were gone? Na! All they need is a single weed stalk and they can get a foothold again. On top of their old moraines. This, by the […]
What it Means to Be Indigenous
It means: to be from a place. It doesn’t mean simply that you live there. It means that you and the place are one thing. For historical reasons, most Canadians and Americans […]
The Oceans We Live In
We are at sea. There is no solid ground. It’s time to stop thinking about soil. Here’s one ocean. It is an ocean of air. Orchard Machinery Riding the Waves The ground-up […]
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