Landscape

  • To Be Better Than We Are

    “It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.” Wendell Berry The canyon was tuff.  Sometime ago, long before my memory or that of my parents, a volcano erupted and spread ash across this… Continue reading

  • April

    When the sun warms and turns to April there is little reason to travel far from home.  Yet spring is the time of year when church, business, and non-profit meetings come out of the woodwork.  Created within each of us,… Continue reading

  • Ditch Bank

      My experience of spring seldom has much to do with the vernal equinox.  Most years the landscape has warmed to spring well ahead of the equinox.  Others afterwards.  Seldom does the feel of landscape match the relationship between sun… Continue reading

  • Bent Gate

    After a fairly lengthy conversation with a Forest Ranger—not to obtain my qualifications as much, I imagine, as too many experiences with folk who believe nature something to spank rather than love—and looking over a number of maps, I left… Continue reading