The original, 1889. The evolved version, 2017. The darkness is gone. ~ Thanks, mustard.
Vincent’s Starry Night Updated for the Pacific Northwest
In Praise of Scotch Thistles
B.C. Hydro, our provincial power provider, is a responsible citizen, and poisoned these invasive thistles last year. It’s the regulation. One wants to protect cattle range from inedible weeds. The thistles […]
Last Winter’s Bird Seed
All the snow and the quail and the chickadees are gone now. They’ll be back. We’re ready!
Flittering Beauty
You know, swallowtails are striped so pretty. It makes for camouflage, when you’re in among the leaves… but is that really the whole deal? Have a look … It’s a motion blur! […]
Swallowtails!
What a nice bunch of mock orange. Ah, but there’s more. See? It has spirits! It sure lifts mine. No straight lines here. Just everything lifting up at once. Ahhhhhhh, sometimes a […]
The Pure Joy of Grassland Thistles
Oh, just roll in that pollen. Come on,you know you want to. It’s climbing out again that’s hard. Whew. But, hey, whoa. Bye.
Lambs Quarters for Dinner
It’s your choice: a bounty better than spinach, or drought. Same rainfall, same soil, same sun, same day, same hour, same tongue, same thirst.
It is the Time for the Flowers of the Wind
It is time for all of us to put down what we are doing and walk out into the grass as she dances to the language of the universe passing through the […]
Red Willow Medicine Opens Summer
Welcome to stektektsxwíIhp, laying down the summer out of her own healing language, spring. Summer is the medicine. The berries are edible but bitter, a kind of relish; the inner bark is […]
Crazy CBC Thinking
The award-winning journalist Alex Migdal, this guy… … knows, apparently his Google, and works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for whom he recently wrote this: ‘Huge amount’ of carbon in soil Irrigation […]
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