nature

  • Equinox

    The days after the fall equinox, when the sun nearly rises straight east and sets squarely in the west, are of moments.  Sunrise and sunset moments of blended color and kissed clouds.  Shadow moments that reveal hollows and ridges hidden in other… Continue reading

    Equinox
  • A Coyote Paradox

    During the warm days of early spring a coyote settled into an irrigation culvert near the barn.  Whelping soon afterwards, she did a good job of keeping quiet and us unaware.  Until, that is, we began running irrigation water.  All of a sudden,… Continue reading

    A Coyote Paradox
  • 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