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. […]
Life (and chipmunks)
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 […]
Jezersko Village
My friend Tamara in her botanical garden in Slovenia noted yesterday that some of the images in my post a few days ago about Big Bar Lake on the Cariboo Plateau could […]
Writing With Light
The blue sky? The yellow bird? The green pine? Female American Goldfinch in a Lodgepole Pine the Beetles Missed Big Bar Lake Hardly. Those are properties of human sight, and of American Goldfinch […]
Climbing with the Bears
Wanna? Up you go! You have to hang on, though. With every leg you have… As training, I’d advise you not to trim your fingernails for awhile. Hang on, now! ~ Otter Pond […]
Water, Time and Loons
Ah, what great stuff water is. When the sun mixes with it like spiritual smoke, you can sort of see through it… It looks a bit like a polaroid photograph of the […]
Living Water on the Chilcotin Plateau
Some landscapes are made by wind. Not these ones in the Chilcotin Basalt, inland from the glacially-carved volcanic arc of the Coast Mountains. Big Bar Eskers This is where the glaciers melted […]
When the Sun Goes Under the Earth
… and comes back up, it looks like this. Carpenter Ant, Big Bar Lake, Chilcotin Basalt I have seen these guys walk through walls of flame and across red-hot coals. That’s the […]
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