Imagine if you were a leaf eating light. You’d eat one set of wavelengths if you lived in the water… The water would transmit flow. … and another on land. The air […]
Green and Orange and Orange and Green
Never Too Hot to Touch
You wouldn’t want to put your hand into the sun, and yet, when it is concentrated, and brought inside a living chain of hydrogen and carbon… …when it is right there before […]
The Power of Mountains
It’s a trickster power that mountains have. They create wind just by passing the sun between them, across the sky. Sunrise in the Similkameen (and the Puddin’head Talus in shadow) In the […]
Big Sagebrush is Soooooo Bossy
See the deer trails to the left of the bluff in the middle of the image? Here’s some more, 500 metres to the right. They look like slumping patterns on the hill, […]
Sundog Over The Similkameen
Dogs will roam, eh. It always was Coyote’s country. This is how I started my day pruning at 8 a.m. The sun is to the right, over the shoulder of K Mountain.
Why It’s Called a Grassland
Look what happens! The grass grows, and dries in the sun, to catch the snow. No snow. A raven, though! But look… … then it snows. Now the grass is bent in […]
Mule Deer, Gardener of the Sun
Look at the yellow dock gone to seed. Look at a mule deer plant it in the sun. There is balance in beauty and beauty in balance. Everything leaves its trace.
Grass Catching the Sun
This is how to walk through the face of the sun. Pretty great, eh! NASA, sorry guys, but we’re already there.
The Secret Life of Wild Mustard
What a life it is to live in the sun. A garden doesn’t have to be humanly planted. Who knew?
The Sun by Any Other Name…
… is an apricot blossom. Look at the invisible sun cupped within those petals! Too bad it was opium traders who brought them to England from China and sold them as “fruit” […]
