Fall Poems Inspired by Paintings and Photographs
Autumn is here and swirling with the gifts of rain at last in Central Oregon. Rain is…
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art | conservation | Nature | Wilderness | wildlife
Refugia of the Blue Mountains
Refugia- wildlands, wild rivers, and wild pockets offering safe havens and passage for native plants and wildlife…
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Mistbow: In praise of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and Jerry Rudy
How is it that mist becomes an archway over Coos Bay? How is it that worries mist…
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All Points of the Compass
Quaquaversal-— adjective, “directed outward from a common center toward all points of the compass; dipping uniformly in…
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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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Yucatán Return- Attending to Small Wonders
Within a tangled tropical garden, I am a gecko chirping, a great-tailed grackle swaggering, or perhaps a…
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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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