Wilderness Canoe Trip
Periodically I am overcome by a desire to take my canoe out on a wilderness trip. If I remember correctly[…]
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Monarchs and Milkweed
Here in southwest Washington we are on the migration route of the western population of the Monarch butterfly. Our Monarchs[…]
Read moreCats with thumbs?
I’ve been testing diabetic cats for the past couple of weeks so when this came over the news wire I[…]
Read moreRaven’s Tail and Northwest Coast Weaving
“Long ago there lived on the Skeena River, in British Columbia, a Tsimshian woman, a widow, of the village of[…]
Read moreIndependence Day 2017
Happy Independence Day! Here in the PNW setting off fireworks is viewed as an expression of freedom. I don’t think[…]
Read moreFood webs and nonlinear dynamics
It was a hot day in the foothills north of Del Valle Reservoir. I had left school at noon to[…]
Read moreKipling and the Inevitable
Rudyard Kipling is another of my favorite authors. If you haven’t read Kim or Just So Stories you have a[…]
Read moreSitting out
His entire body was in plain sight, its length broken only by an outcropping of sandstone that partly obscured his[…]
Read moreBannock Pizza
In a previous post I mentioned that I had made a bannock pizza. I’ve had a couple of queries on[…]
Read moreThe Guardian of Nihhluidih
Sometime about 150 million years ago the North American plate crashed into a series of rock islands borne along by[…]
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