Category: Process
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Rooted Wolves
In younger maturity this old maple tree, well over a metre across, was clearly an excellent climbing tree, even for the likes of humans, with many stout branches spreading wide. That’s how trees grow when the land around them is cleared. With a narrower crown still showing vigour above many of its no-longer-young offspring, this…
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Right Words Right Time
Can words voiced aloud arrive as birds do, Swoop to perfect perch on breeze-tossed branch As exact poise enfolds motion until launch again Greets air ever-changing to touch, with grace; Can mots juste walk in? Show up on a screen?
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Salt Water
In not so many words may the bone-deep Hurt be met with welcome togetherness To let that place know that it can be heard In a ready midst that says you too can burst Into the grace of rain that blesses this earth
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Making Room
From seed to fullest growth, flowering trees add bark alongside wood each time they thaw … and a full sized tree won’t fit inside the bark made in the first years. It’s a process, one that birch threes show so well. Sometimes, decades of process show side-by-side: In one sunny autumn afternoon, in one small…
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Culmination
This is what the blossoms were about all along.
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Once And Future Soil
Storms take some leaves before trees were done with them for the season. In a late summer out of time, too late to be so like spring, too warm to yet be autumn, this leaf got an early start returning to dirt.
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What Mandelbrot Said
Picture Benoit Mandelbrot giving a talk about fractals to a rapt audience of math and computer people in 1982, when computer graphics as we know them had advanced enough to show not only a plot of the Mandelbrot set, but a variety of applications of fractal mathematics to simulated landscapes — prompting an aside about…
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Welcome Heaviness
Weeks to go before frost, and the sun and rain and air and soil incorporated in these seeds already approaches a fullness.
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Verdance
When light and warmth return, green returns. In the woods, green surrounds.