The way to merge with the Earth for improved thinking is both obvious and hidden, and that depends on who you are. A standard way in contemporary Western culture is to make […]
Thinking With the Balsam Roots as they Flower
Going Willow: Accepting the Challenge of a Neonicotinoid Ban
What great news. The EU has voted to ban the outdoor use of neonicotinoid (nicotine derivatives) pesticides, due to their accumulative environmental harm on bee populations. Here are some, domestic and wild, […]
Who Is the Smart One Now?
Balance, that’s the thing. The deer eat the buds of Siya? in the winter, as they hang down nice and low. This nibbling stiffens the branch and forces it up and out […]
A Life of Hazard in the Fields of the Sun
A bee… A Tiny and Courageous Bee A crab spider blending in… Crab Spider in the Central Balsam Root Bloom The hunt is on.
Joy in the Week of Bees and Wind
When the wind is a bee. Filbert catkins, waiting for the wind. When a bee is the wind. Well, a wasp, but what a tiny beauty with her fur stole! […]
Colonialism and Bees
So, two honey bees and a host of wild bees, of many species. That sounds manageable. But, what’s this? A host of honeybees and a few wild ones? Can that be right? […]
The Marmots Are Up and At ‘Em
Yellow-Bellied Marmot, Nicola Lake Pretty early, I’d say. I wonder what it knows.
The Five Levels of Consciousness Meets the Starlings in the Poplars
Artifice wants you to look away, but if you look at it, you will see marvels. The human body meets the giants (here Lombardy poplars full of starlings) and responds, body to […]
How Strong is Water?
Stronger than gravity. Stronger than anti-gravity It has edges, but resists them. Even when it doesn’t evaporate, it climbs. We recognize these forms, because we are water. We stare into it. Whoa. […]
When the Snow is the Sky
Ah, so beautiful. Warming and cooling and sun shining through the ice, melting it from below under its icy skin, have made a beautiful thing, neither winter nor spring but both. Pretty […]
