Reflections

  • Walking Landscape

    Walking a landscape is learning a landscape.  They go hand in hand.  Driving landscape is an introduction.  Walking a landscape though, is an adventure in to landscape’s thinking, feeling, and imagination.  Walking gives one the opportunity to pause and wonder.   Each foot fall creates… Continue reading

    Walking Landscape

  • Spring Leaf

    The apricot trees blossomed early this spring.  Though they are the first bloomers of all our fruit trees, the buds arrived a little earlier than normal.  If our luck held, they survived the early spring 27-degree frosts.  Yet we had a good number… Continue reading

    Spring Leaf

  • Grassing

    I like grass.  Whether in the pasture or the hay field, grass does not try to be more than their natural self.  Walk a field and I feel their rootedness and love of sun.  Whether ryegrass, wheatgrass, orchard grass, or tall fescue, I… Continue reading

    Grassing

  • Becoming Disturbed

    You can feel it without seeing it.  The blank stare—over the phone.  This was one of them.  I’d mentioned the Doctrine of Discovery with that tone of “of course you—as a leader within the Church—know something about this.”  I didn’t pick up on it… Continue reading

    Becoming Disturbed