The sandhill cranes are flying south from the Beaufort Sea, as they have for 125,000,000 years. One family at a time. When the leader lags, the group is soon a ball, and […]
It is Time to Go Home
Getting A Head in the Similkameen
Mountains have heads, faces, arms and shoulders. Here’s one of its heads. It’s not a human head, or an animal head at all, yet it’s a head, above Keremeos this morning in […]
The Gift Culture of the Grasslands
Flax is beautiful. The seeds grow heavy and lower the seed to the ground. Mice eat the seed there. And then it lifts up again, through the snow! These aren’t seeds that […]
Birth on New Year’s Day
In an age of humanism, centered on the concept of humans as discrete physical beings, birth is a simple enough process: an infant gestates in a mother’s womb, comes out, breathes on […]
Amazing Water
The surface of this water has frozen first. After that, the rest of the water didn’t freeze from the top down. Rather, it froze all at once, slowly releasing heat and air […]
Freeing Ourselves from The Illusion of the Real
So, which is “real”? The chokecherries at the end of day? Or the chokecherries seen through a moving camera’s errors? It sure seems to me that something of the chokecherry’s essence is […]
How Wide is a Mule Deer’s Mouth?
A deer has been eating my plums. I didn’t think to get out there with a tape measure to get an exact measurement. I was too busy shooing her away. But it […]
The Watcher and the Watched
What you see sees you. This makes no sense if seeing is identified as an personal act, but if sight is present, like light, then both the seer and the seen are […]
Sunrise from the Bottom Up
Just because humans are vertical pillars with the seeing bits at the top doesn’t mean the world works from the top down, too. Or from the bottom up, for that matter.
What to Do When You Lose Your Hat in the Wind
Seriously, out in the shrub steppe it does get windy, and losing a hat is a real thing. The sun can then burn you into a lump of tar. I had a […]
