After three weeks of hot, hot weather, stretching the summer deep into the fall, gloriously, rain! Here are the first drops… It’s like the moon! Why not. The moon came from here. […]
Light and Shadow in the Grass
I promised I would show you some images of a tension I’ve noticed in Western culture. It’s a living tension, that comes in variable forms. First… Shadows of Grass on Stone … and second … Lit Grass […]
In the Country of the Wind
Oh, Grass, My Beautiful One!
Grasses are the children of a warming earth, and this is their season. I’ve been talking of science lately, but a science based in poetry and in ancient earth knowledge, so I thought today, […]
Beauty: Measuring Device
Autumn is upon us. A time of fruitfulness.Look closer. What a beautiful one! It’s fair to say that what I, a human, observe as beauty is not necessarily aesthetic, yet is attractive, in […]
Beauty and Science
Science is a cultural product, no less so than this: Canadian Garden Decoration, Orchard Hill Not only has the lion lain down with the lamb but it looks like one, too! […]
Gaia and Gravity
These rowan berries are catching the light from the air.These spider webs are using a similar plant framework to catch other particles moving on the air. Flies, moths, and so on. You could […]
The Story of Wasp and Grub
She moved this thing across the log like a long distance weightlifter. Sugar Lake Great for the wasp. Bad news for the grub. It looks like it’s going to be the incubation […]
Earth Talking: The Language of Science Part 4
There are many ways to talk about the earth. One is to speak about it in its own terms. Take the word height, which means hill and head all at once. It’s related […]
Asparagus in Glory: Science and Language Part III
The other day I was discussing how the language of science influences the world that scientific exploration and method allows us to see. Behind that is the observation that if the language […]
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