Oh, hello. It’s a thing. With legs like hers (she is, let’s say, about 7 centimetres from tip to tip ), you can jump from twig to twig, in three dimensional space. […]
Gymnasts in the Lavender
Juvenile Stars About to Leave the Nesting Colony
They are still being born. They are countless and perfect. Born from suns themselves. At home in the complex interstellar environment. And now they are leaving home. Soon they will drift on […]
The World According to Wild Mustard
What starts out cool and soft and evaporating out of stone … … leaves stone behind, warm and hard and singing in the wind. These are the mysteries.
Flittering Beauty
You know, swallowtails are striped so pretty. It makes for camouflage, when you’re in among the leaves… but is that really the whole deal? Have a look … It’s a motion blur! […]
Island in a Grassland Sea
Rocks are one of the richest grassland environments. They turn bodies of heat into surfaces and surfaces of heat into bodies. They turn winter into spring, spring into summer, and low into […]
Ancient Waves Live On
These drainage waves were formed 10,000 years ago when a lake as large as a sea filling the valley below my house drained in half a day. They are still catching sun […]
Big Ears for Big Sagebrush
The Big Sage blossoms with its scrubby flower stalks in the fall. There’s not great colour in them, but they do stick way up high. I’ve wondered about that often, with thoughts […]
The Land Speaks and We Listen
When the land presses energy out, it makes a trail. Water can follow that trail, or that trail can be picked up by shrubs and lifted to the air, as in the […]
Chickadee Photograph
So, the chickadees come and eat the weed seeds. This is part of the ecology of the new grasslands. It’s like moving to Mars, except Mars comes to you. Still, tasty, and […]
The Grasslands and Free Will
I saw something beautiful today. Want to see? Just follow my footsteps. Trudge trudge trudge. Here we go… Before the snow comes, the grass is dense. It sways in the wind. Just […]
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