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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Landscapes

A summer office beside Kootenay Lake

July 5, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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.

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Fairy Bells

July 5, 2015 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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?

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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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About Eileen

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

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