Given that it’s not possible to make an image of a red dogwood… Sadly, a photograph, not an image of a red dogwood. There’s a lot of camera in that thing. … […]
Spiritual Painting with Light
A Winter Walk through Colour and Memory
As the day closes, the white light … … reddens to pink. And then blue rises from the pink. At a certain point, they are equal. What a point of balance in […]
The Wind in the Grass
When you are born to a world, in which the old growth forests are bunchgrasses less than a metre high… … and live in these forests for close to half the time […]
Dancing the New Year Home
In thickness, there is a way through. Plum thicket. In the darkness, there is light. Plum thicket. Even the darkness is light. Plum thicket. Even the light is darkness. Russian olive. Even […]
Cedars Dancing in the Snow
Forget any thoughts of darkness. These are days of such light. The light was fading in the cedar forest on Rose Swanson Mountain in Splatsin Territory this afternoon. There was too little […]
37. A Land of Gifts
A vital part of the history of the Pacific Northwest is the concept of how your body relates to it culturally as a body among other bodies. This is not the same […]
Just a Little to the Side of the World
That’s what Christ is up to in Aberdaron, Wales. Like, if he was standing on the world, the rainbow message would not be quite right. Similarly for this pine, reflecting in a […]
Sacred Water
What a diminished world, a shadow. Not the Earth, but the world. There is beauty here, but despite the sense of intimacy and closeness that a world gives, it is at a […]
Is it the Spirit of a Tree? Are We Snow?
So, does this photo show the spirit of a Russian olive? Or this? Or this, maybe? Or this, even? A little camera movement in poor light does the trick. Well, none of […]
Winter Tourism in the Okanagan Valley
Right now, Okanagan Valley tourism centres around wine, beaches, boats, skis, golf, a bit of biking and adventure, a tiny bit of camping, and restaurants, usually with wine or golf or skis. […]
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