Here’s the park. Why it is called a “park” is because it belongs to the Queen in the name of the people. That’s a little arrogant. This last tiny remnant of a […]
The World Beyond
Is It An Optical Illusion?
Is this image a record of a trick of light? Or is this image made by looking at a wetland the way things are? Do we see through darkness to the earth […]
Never Too Hot to Touch
You wouldn’t want to put your hand into the sun, and yet, when it is concentrated, and brought inside a living chain of hydrogen and carbon… …when it is right there before […]
The Mystery of the Cattail
Everybody twists. Just not at the same level. Fascinating!
Photographing the Unseeable
There is a difference between the subject of a photograph and its body. This butte above Olalla, in the Keremeos River Valley, for instance. This black bird with an attitude. The blackbird […]
Decolonizing the “Rivers” of Cascadia
This flow… … is mapped as “The Okanogan River.” It is a colonial term, yet certainly not the most egregious. I live near the top of its headwaters. Head of the Lake […]
How Pollen Gets Spread Around On a Fine Spring Day
The process of spreading pollen among pine trees when the wind isn’t blowing is simple but energy intensive. Now, can you imagine having that kind of power? (He asks, as the […]
Bees of the Earth, Flowers of the Air
The double-flowered plum my father planted to give away to friends has found a home here, while he has gone to sea forever. After two years, she has a visitor! I like […]
Images Beyond Life and Death
Last year’s wild cherries meet this year’s blossoms. How cool is that! Let’s remember that a fascination with death and rebirth is often a cultural inheritance from our celtic ancestors and that […]
The Great Run That Needs No Other Name
Welcome to the great run of the West. This band of energy that is materialized here as water descends in a lost mid-Pacific rift zone of such power that 10,000 kilometres of […]
