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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

The presence of Coyote

July 5, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

In March, at Woodhaven eco-preserve in Kelowna, I came across the secretive presence of Coyote – this scat deposit on a bed of moss.  I added this to my image library of various animal scats, secretive signs of a wild thing having passed this way.

Filed Under: Inhabitants, Landscapes, Uncategorized

Big Paw

June 30, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Heavy rain in early June made for mud on dirt roads. I found this bear paw print in the forest high above the West Arm of Kootenay Lake

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Sophie Morigeau’s Landscape

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  Sophie Morigeau was the daughter of a French-Canadian free-fur trader and a Cree-mixed blood mother, born in the beautiful valley of the Columbia River headwaters in 1836.  While many attempts were made to “civilize” her through Catholic Mission schooling, marriage and other conventions, Sophie couldn’t fit the mold and became a rare free-trader like […]

Filed Under: Imagined Maps

Upper Columbia Region – imagined

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  This is my own map of the region where I live – without roads, borders, cities, towns or other features. Imagined landscape!

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

Saffron Peak in Purcell Range

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

  I was reading The Purcell Range of B.C. by Mr. Thorington and came across his marvelous description of Saffron Peak and the river flowing out of that yellow mountain.  Maps.  Exploring.  Choices about which way to go.  All of these prompted my journal to explode with possibilities…..

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps, Upper Columbia River Region Maps

Columbia River Sea to Source

March 2, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

I created this map when writing about a crack in Wanapum Dam in 2014, imagining the Columbia to be flowing in a crack in concrete      

Filed Under: Imagined Maps, Maps

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About Eileen

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

Recent Posts

  • Challenging conversations: a unique Stanford symposium on the Columbia River
  • 600-Strong: whoever would have thought?
  • Hockey and gravity
  • Salmon and Columbia River Treaty flood control
  • Flexible Concrete and the Imagined Valve

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