The energy and pressure effects that create these clouds in the depressurized and repressurized zone west of the coastal arc volcanoes of the North Eastern Pacific create in their image grasslands that […]
Like Sky Like Earth
It’s Good to Have Visitors
Large … … and small. I planted these flowers a year ago, to remember ones I had thirty years before that, and to keep that time alive, and the link, through […]
The Wonder of Life & The Wonder of Death
Earth crystallizing around light, climbing a ladder to the sun. Look at it! Rhododendron Shoots, Campbell River That’s the spirit of this planet. This is not: Gopher Trap (Sprung) (Protecting a lawn from […]
The Art of Tree Pruning
Art is usually discussed in terms of galleries and stages and mp3 files and writing. Yesterday I talked about pruning trees as art. Just click here, if you missed it. I’ll expand on […]
Remember Those Cherry Trees I was Pruning
At the beginning of April? Yes? No? Well, here they are again, as April opens into the light. April 4, 2014 … Harold has gone to photograph bluebirds! And just a few days back? […]
Biscuit Root Makes History
I found a rich community of biscuit root growing on a scree slope. They’re hard to harvest there (which is, likely, why they’re still there), but they love it. Beautiful Biscuit Root […]
The Simplest Things
Grass is simple. It stands up, it falls down under the snow, and it stands up again. Wait. That’s not simple, is it. Na. But it is beautiful. It’s not the GDP […]
Wild and Domestic Bees
Grassland bee (note the pollen)…. Apostemon Bee on a Mariposa Lily (Bella Vista) Most people here don’t know these beauties exist, and by that I mean both the flower and the bee. […]
Welcome, Sun!
Yellow Cabbage White in the Forsythia My Father-in-Law Gave me 3 Years Ago Thanks, Corky!
Magnolias and the Name of the Wind
What you plant is part of an interspecies conversation between plants and plants and plants and people. At the same time that the saskatoons are subtly blooming on the hills, the magnolias […]
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