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A Gypsy-sort-of-Garden

May 16, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

Some of you know that I have landed back in south-eastern B.C. after a winter of exploration across the west. Soon after I arrived, I was thrown a curve ball that resulted in the continuation of my gypsy life in a community I have called home for 22 years. While there have been challenges, I’ve […]

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Expansion into Sky

March 27, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Nebraska shares a boundary with the state of my dreams: Wyoming. I say this not because of the side-by-side signs I saw in a town called Grey Bull (“Obama is a pile of excrement” said one. “Trump hats for sale,” said the other.) Wyoming is the state of my dreams because of its expansive, exhilarating […]

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A remarkable encounter

July 21, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

I came across this bear skull set on a cedar stump in a selectively logged forest in July, 2015.  Over a foot long, the skull’s front fangs are gone.  The back molars, made for chewing up berries, grubs and vegetation, confirm the jaw of an omnivore.   The stump and the skeleton may both be […]

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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.

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

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