Lichen is a colonizer. It eats rock and releases minerals that other plants can use. Most of the lichen on the stone below has died. It’s a good chance to see the […]
If You Lose the Water, You Lose the Land
Salt Lake in the Cariboo
Salt Lakes, that live from snow and evaporate in the sun, are terrible for cattle but great for humans, being sacred and all. Long Lake, Canoe Creek Illahie They are a fine […]
How Rain Pushes You Away from Habit
Well, when it falls from the sky, it bends over all the bee-catching people, and covers all other trails. There where rain pools, seed falls. Porcupine grass bends willingly to this pressure. […]
Beautiful Slugs. Yes. Beautiful Slugs on the Dry Hill.
Above this dry hill, the hawks roam. On its crest, the Saskatoons are blooming around old wetlands. The water is just over the hill. Lower down, the water comes in rain now, […]
Thinking with Shadows
Shadows are great. You can walk right through them. You can feel them pass over you like a cool hand. They are the space an object blocks from a source of light, […]
The Earth is Guiding Us
Trails are made by the land, and the eye in movement with the land, but not by the land alone. A trail down to flooded Columbia River at the McNary National […]
The Forgiving Earth
The kids learn the ideals of society. Or, better put, the parents try to teach them. But the Earth has its way, and even the lawnmowers succumb to her greater power. Eventually. […]
How Grassy is Grassland? Very.
The grass that grows in clumps… … make a pattern that the mice and gophers follow under the snow. In this way, they deepen the grid. That the grass makes. In […]
The Unity of Land, Water and Sky
The balance between water and other forms of energy is written on the land. It is written in colour and form, down to the finest level of correspondence. You cannot say: […]
Want to Have a Close Look at Your Brain?
Here you go. Not just a lump of basalt, eh. To look in, look out. No need to cut into your skull. Until you judge it, you are what you see. […]
