Ah. A doe. Blessed be.
But Who Guards the Eagles Guarding Their Nest?
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: a Day Off the Reservation
Traditional dancing might not help. The slope that male deer have been using for their fall gatherings have been graded, sculpted and turned into a big wide flat parking lot for white […]
How to Survive as a Deer in the Cold: Let the Sun be Your Shovel
It’s a lot of work to break down through the snow with your hooves and try to find some grass, especially some nice fresh green grass in the middle of the winter. […]
How Deer Make Spiders
Some fine pruning. Look at all the trimming from last year! Love those new shoots and rose hips in the fall, mmmm. Oh, what’s this? Splendid! Guardian of the Big Bar Lake […]
Sagebrush Shares Her Water and Builds a World
Have a look at this sage brush: Like all plants, she gathers most of her water from the top surface of the soil, where it is most quickly lost to the dry […]
Towards a New Cartography 8: Robin Did It
Maps are power. We could look at the hill in the snow. And map the slope angles and relationships of the hill (not the contours but flat planes), or those parts that […]
Deer Spotting: Enormous Fun
Long before you see, you are seen. In fact, “seeing” is to enter the “seen” space. The buck below saw me, long, long before I saw him, but when I saw him […]
No Metaphors, Please
Visually, an á, a flow that carries a distant watering and extends it laterally across space… aka The Thompson River …is the same as the Grey Canal Trail below, with its new […]
Shadows, Holes, Poetry and the Art of Speaking as the Earth
Last night I wrote a post and then deleted it by trying to save some notes for today, which seemed clever, but was just, well, not. Let’s have a look state of […]
Getting Used to Living in Time (The Intimate Lives of Rocks and Grass)
Let’s read a common thing … … in its context. Grass. It’s green and blows in the wind. It bends and sways, this one. It… clumps. West Arrowstone Deer wander through it. […]
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