Isn’t it fine to climb out of the sedges of the wetlands … … and the bunchgrasses of the drylands just above them… … into the pine grass high up …. … […]
Light and Shadow Weaving the Land
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Fun With Light
“Light travels in straight lines.” Yes, if observed from a science that measures straight lines. No, if observed from within light, within the world, within gravity or within perception. The statement is meant […]
When Trees are Weeds
This is an old growth forest full of weeds. The sage brush is the weed … … not the bunch grass. Sagebrush is an indigenous plant, but it comes in a bit thickly when […]
Who’s Who Out There
Yellow Jacket Wasp Because of her mighty sting, she’s a good one to imitate. This beetle is doing well by it. So is this mantid fly. In return, wasp pretends to be […]
Morning Frost
Another day of Autumn fishing waits in the Cariboo grasslands. Fish like living in the grass, too!
Wild Crafting 101
To find currants in the crowded foliage of midsummer, just be there in the fall, long after the berries have gone to the birds. You’ll know where they are. Wild crafters know […]
Good Ideas Bear Repeating
Choke cherry. Starry False Solomon’s Seal. Only one is a tree.
Look Down and Marvel
Wet forest shade. Dry forest shade. Same forest. Same trees.
So Many Earths Lifted High
Okanagan Okanogan 