activism | climate change | conservation | forests | hiking | oregon | Wilderness
Drift Creek Wilderness– A Tribute
I’m drifting back in time in Drift Creek Wilderness, the largest remaining protected ancient forest in the…
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Trios of Renewal in the Three Sisters Wilderness
On an overnight backpack in the Three Sisters Wilderness, I am musing over trios, triplets, and tryptychs….
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birds | climate change | forests | Nature
What do Birds Ask of Us?
I’m holding a hermit warbler –my right hand cupped gently under the bird as my left forefinger…
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Lewis’s Woodpeckers –What Makes a Forest Whole
Lewis’s Woodpeckers are radiant and confounding members of the family Picidae. I’m spellbound by their enigmatic presence…
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Protect our Wise Forests: the “Immanent Groves”
“What is learned in the Immanent Grove is not much talked about elsewhere. It is said that…
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Pacific Wren: Virtuoso of Spring in the Ancient Forest
My ears are chiming with Pacific wren song long after I’ve left the “Old-Growth Trail” in McDonald…
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backyards | forests | Nature | Philosophy | poetry
Walk Slowly, and Bow Often
“…and never hurry through the worldbut walk slowly, and bow often.” — Mary Oliver Mary Oliver’s poem…
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birds | forests | kingfisher | Nature | trees
Two Pines: Two Ways of Gratitude
All things counter, original, spare, strange;Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle,…
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