Last year’s stalks are pretty, but what life is left in them beyond that? Well… just look at their calyxes, all shrivelled and black, like perching spiders. Spiders who will bring death […]
A New Twist on Playing Dead
The Marmot Wakes
Winter sleep is gone. Fresh air and eyes on the horizon is now! The light begins.
The Chilcotin Ark Gets Her First Review
You know, it’s great to wander in the hills and across the basalt plateaus and write this blog, and to come home and work with good friends to make amazing books about […]
The Human Signature
Other species do not see these distinct shapes and patterns in these groupings. That’s us. Say hello. Following this pattern was once the quest for God. Now it’s book learning. Too bad. […]
The Mystery of Clouds and Ice
Clouds are water vapour held up by air, and are named after clods, or lumps of earth. Ice floes are clods of ice held up by water. But in the world of […]
The Return of the Water People
Coots love the water so much that they only leave for the deep south (100 kilometres away) when things get too rough in January. Then they come up and literally hug the […]
The Many Faces of Ice on Okanagan Lake
Slowly, the cold is leaving Okanagan Lake. It has much to say on the way.
The Beautiful Temporary Estuaries of Winter
Ice freezes in flat sheets down on the old fjord lake. A few days later, it is broken up by the wind, in angular chunks, as the repeated rising and falling, linear […]
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 […]
Singing the Sun So Beautifully
Here’s a paper birch singing the sun today. Here Here are the notes for her sun song put into a ladder of spirit. This is the voice of the universe. Here are […]
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