In salt water, there’s salt and beautiful purple mussels. That’s a fine and wonderful thing. In fresh water, though, such as Okanagan Lake here in the foggy mountains of winter, there are […]
Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
The Waxwings are Here!
As the snow sifted down yesterday afternoon, the waxwings appeared, just in time. They settled in the poplars down the road, looking like winter blossoms. These most wonderful birds devour all the […]
15 Pheasants Sitting in a Tree
Forget partridges in pear trees. Take a look at this! Ring-Necked Pheasants in a Choke Cherry Tree (or two) Before yesterday morning, I never saw a single pheasant in a single tree, […]
God and Evolution in the Age of Information
I’ve been showing you patterns in the leaves, and patterns of birds. Here they are together. One version of the theory of evolution holds that it’s all survival of the fittest, that […]
New Snow: When Zero Gets Real
I’ve been talking about zeroes lately, and suggested that a mathematics without zero would be a mathematics of unity. It wouldn’t lead to contemporary technical society or economics, or even the computer […]
Snow Images: Mathematics Without Zero
So, the birds come to the local sumac bush, chitter, chitter, cheep cheep, chirp… … and do what birds do best (other than the chirping)… The Mathematics of Randomness, by Birds I […]
Homage to a Stink Bug
The cranberry carageenas have lost their glowing orange leaves. Their berries are on the ground now, picked over by chickadees. It is a beautiful world of colour down there, where the summer […]
Stopping to Watch the Big Bang
I’m used to walking up into the hills, and I usually see amazing things, because that’s the kind of world it is. Now that I have pneumonia and have the breath to […]
The Poetry and Science of Flight
I am trying to learn how to read. So, I’m standing in the middle of the road hoping no car will come. I’m doing this because it’s time for the last birds […]
Meditation on Light
The human mind reads patterns. Perhaps it does so because it is formed from an earth rich with patterns. Perhaps the moment of apprehension of pattern is called meaning. Perhaps that […]
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