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Salmon River Dreams

August 1, 2022 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 4 Comments

In June, I explored the Snake River system of central and southern Idaho for an upcoming book with Braided River Press. The 2024 book will also feature the beautiful photography of David Moskowitz, which you can see here. The Salmon and its cousin the Clearwater are tributaries to the great Snake, a waterway nearly as […]

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Emergence Takes Time

March 23, 2022 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 4 Comments

Nearly a year ago, I posted about the remarkable yucca species known as Our Lord’s Candle, or, Hesperoyucca whipplei. I have been busy with writing projects since then – too busy for blog posts. On a recent walk in the dry canyon where I live, I came across another yucca plant, this one preparing to […]

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Fractured Growth

July 16, 2020 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 5 Comments

In his compact and fascinating book, Li, Dynamic Form in Nature, the architect David Wade identifies and catalogues repeated patterns found in the natural world. Wade defines Li as something that falls between pattern and principle. Li can be found in wave-washed sand, ice crystals and tree bark, to name only a few. It demonstrates […]

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The Hummingbird’s Tongue

June 20, 2020 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 5 Comments

It’s the longest day of the year, with the actual solstice at 2:43 p.m. I woke at half past 4 this morning, enveloped in the cacophony of birdsong floating in through my open bedroom window. Juncos, robins, swallows, sparrows, and even the most ordinary of crows were greeting the solstice as if this might not […]

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Taking the Leap

February 29, 2020 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 4 Comments

February 29th, is one of those breakouts – a rogue day in the standard calendar. The year (as we measure it) has been around, more or less, since Ancient Rome. A far older calendar common to most Indigenous cultures is one based on the cycles of the moon. Every four years, February adds one day, […]

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Choosing Beauty

January 19, 2020 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 6 Comments

Recently, I stumbled across an astonishing place, one where beauty has emerged from a surprising source. In the Los Angeles basin, where water is ever a precious resource, a traditional Japanese garden filled with ponds and streams takes as its source sewage from hundreds of thousands of households. In the 1980s, Donald C. Tillman, an […]

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

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  • Lighting a Flame
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