I sit here in early morning, watching the swallows dance across the water’s surface, dipping close to harvest bugs, rising up again to deliver them into a waiting nest of young.
Fairy Bells
On a springtime walk, along a path I have followed so many times, I came across a lush, knee-high forest of Fairy Bells (Prosartes hookeri), spreading beneath the shade of an evergreen forest. How could I have missed this charm and beauty, all these years?
The presence of Coyote
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.
Big Paw
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
Sophie Morigeau’s Landscape
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 […]
Upper Columbia Region – imagined
This is my own map of the region where I live – without roads, borders, cities, towns or other features. Imagined landscape!