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Planting Seeds

September 26, 2017 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Redfish Creek flows into the West Arm of Kootenay Lake, close to where I live. This aptly named creek has long been a spawning grounds for the region’s kokanee, a sockeye species identical to the ocean version, except that it adapted to live in freshwater only when it was stranded here long ago by melting […]

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Thank you, Mr. Sun

June 20, 2017 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Today is the longest of the year in the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice. When I stepped out onto my deck, a small sun greeted me in the form of a Zinnia flower. I have been watching it for several days as it tried to open its bright face to the world. What a perfect […]

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Reversing Rivers and the mystery of Cones

January 5, 2017 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Near the end of 2016, I rolled La Tortue into a nearly deserted campground at the mouth of San Simeon Creek, near Cambria, on the central coast of California. Surrounded by the undeveloped landscape of the Hearst Ranch, this place harkens back to a long-ago sort of California: uncrowded, more sparsely populated and filled with […]

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How I do love you, Nelson

December 14, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

This week, I interrupted my coastal California research to rush home to Nelson, B.C., where I received the honour of Cultural Ambassador for 2017.  It was a rude climatic shift – from 60 f. to 0 f. (about 15 c. to -12 c.!)  It was also a reminder of the wonder and beauty of the […]

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Exploring the Chaparral

December 8, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

The ranch where my mom grew up backs onto Los Padres National Forest, nearly two million acres of oak, pine, redwood and chaparral, stretching from near Santa Barbara to Big Sur.  While these mountains are older and softer than the recently glaciated peaks of my home in Nelson, British Columbia, they offer abundant beauty and […]

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Shifting Sands

November 25, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Winter has chased me south to the Pacific Coast near Los Angeles as 2016 draws to a close.  Here, I encounter the bright light etched across my childhood memories.  Everything looks bleached and a little faded, except for the magical bougainvillia vine, spilling magenta and blood red blooms across chain-link fences and cement walls. On […]

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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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