habitat restoration
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The limits of sight
Using the holiday to take a step away from racing around and only capturing snapshots of my life at home. Continue reading
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Morning on the prairie: imagining a million buffalo
It’s cold. A thick layer of sparkly white frosting coats the tent like a muffin. I’d say the temperature is somewhere in the 20’s. It’s fall, so I expected this. I’m swaddled in synthetic puffy fabric and fleece, with rain jacket and pants to keep the slightest breeze… Continue reading
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Getting out there in outer Montana
….my life and my blog have been left in a dust cloud, pressed flat in the gravel like dehydrated roadkill. I needed a break. Continue reading
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The Company That I Keep
I look like one of those people, but I’m not. No, I don’t watch television. There is too much else to do. But that “else” isn’t pursuit of the spiritual, the religious, the social. I do things with my beat… Continue reading
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Bringing Birdsong Back
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. Rachel Carson This… Continue reading
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Beware the Legend of Owl
Owl legends run the gamut across peoples and history, and say perhaps more about people than owls. The most simplistic and superstitious medieval myths associate the owl’s adaptation to night with terrible things. The owl’s superior ability to hunt at night- along with the… Continue reading
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I’ll stop planting now, really I will~
I was going to quit this year, finally, and just maintain areas that turned into crazy jungles. Just prune and weed and divide occasionally, do something else with my time in the winter and spring. But the orange honeysuckle burst… Continue reading
A Place of River and Sky 