Category: Ecosystemic
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Living Lenses
A leaf snagged in a waterfall, in full sun, covered by the flow but unmoving. Should be possible to photograph, right? Not so fast. Knowing it is underwater, I look through the water, focus on the leaf, and see it in detail. Not so easy for a pocket camera.
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Well, there’s washing up
Shoes off in shade by the water after a dozen hours on my feet, yes please. Hey, geese, have you left even one square metre without a dropping? The answer was less yes than it looked at first …
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Another Watershed
Before biking to a Pow Wow, looking at the route google maps suggested, I recognized the twisty look of what is called an unimproved road around here for the last leg of the route. Loaded down with tent and panniers, on the day I opted not to add a few kilometres to go via a…
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Verdance
When light and warmth return, green returns. In the woods, green surrounds.
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Only To Burst Forth
Deciduous trees focus so much attention on a full culmination of their growing tips into well-sealed buds to protect their strength and tenderness from the worst of winter. Then when the sun and warmth return, the bursting is something to behold.
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Charismatic Megaflora
This was goodbye. Good to have known you. A sunny spring Saturday afternoon. Monday the heavy equipment had begun obliteration, that afternoon it was still. A chance to walk in from another direction and show my affection and respect before the cutting short and uprooting. Arborvitae can be removed, tree by tree, but ice ages…
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Apprentice To Clouds
The dozens of textures at onceOf advent of laden raincloudsDisplaying forceful assertion And In the exact same processResult and author both ofCeaseless yieldingTo what comesA speaker of wordsDares lightning strikeTo attempt to conveyWhat wind visibly wettedAlways says And This one felt requestedTo make verbal sketchSpoken invitationWritten listeningTrust becomes 2017-04-03 22:49