nature

  • 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

  • Ordinary Tree and Bread

    Today’s the last day of Christmas.  Five weeks ago my family spent a day in the mountains choosing a tree for the mass of Christ and to make decorative wreaths.  This morning the tree stands in the corner next to the dining table.  Just… Continue reading

    Ordinary Tree and Bread