Yesterday, I wrote this: It is time to stop taking the world apart and to acknowledge that what we seek is what we will find. It is that kind of universe. I […]
I Love Water

Big Bar Lake, with Damselfly The green colour comes from the bright lake bottom, which is the remains of the bed of an underground glacial river, made of tiny, flat, oval pebbles ground […]
Okanagan Goes to the Okanogan
On the road again. Going off the grid. ~ See you soon. (This is the second lull in Okanagan Okanogan posts since September 2011. You deserve it!)
The Magic of Shade and Shadows

Shade is defined as the effect that comes when something blocks the sun. Fair enough. All shade is not equal, though. Here are, in no particular order, choke cherry shade … … […]
Teaching Children the (Hard) Way

When water systems are used as reservoirs … Rosemund Lake, Flooded … people move between the trees, and are dwarfed by them.Here’s how we teach our children that… Children’s Playground, Chief Joseph Dam, Washington The […]
The Great Tractor Show

In November, the poet Howard Brown and I are giving a show about tractors. He has the long poem. I have gallery walls. Somehow we’ll make this work. We’ve been taking photos. […]
Saving the Grasslands One Garden at a Time

In forest fire season, even the grassland hills are suffering in the smoke.Note how the golf course road zig-zagging back and forth here manages to take all the water away. Note as […]
Irony in the Garden

Here’s my front yard. Note the flowers I have planted instead of a lawn. It has been a very exciting place lately. Dozens of species of bees and many species of beetles […]
Freeing Photography from the 19th Century Image

Photography got its beginnings as a way of casting onto a chemically treated glass plate an image of the shadows between rays of light. That was magic for the Age of Art, […]
The Problem With Darwin

Darwin is English. Goethe is German. There have been wars over this. Pity. Let me explain. First, an image of multiplicity from the former East Germany: Goethe’s Botanical Garden in Jena, Germany […]