Rooting
Mindfulness Comes At A Price
This Is How The World Works
Salish Archipelago
I hold still for the light as it plays on the horizon before the earth turns and shows its treasures to the sun and then the moon. Sea animals roam at my feet and I see what they do. It is change that we see.
Northwesterlies – Doublebluff – Whidbey Island
Defining Green – Pacific West Coast
The End, This Time
Island Vinyard
A Sense of Place
Evening In May
Wind In Sun
heavy wind in sun in the trees wind moving living trees each against the other in their reach upwards just at the end of their tolerance swaying with the form they had built, not yet crafted by the wind but the sun.
Determine The Source
Morning Solitude
Islands, Ocean, Mainland and Cascade Mountains
Blue
Island Reeds
March Life & Death
Whidbey Island – 1854
Plate 68: Mount Rainier and Whidbey Island. Engraving by John M. Stanley, 1854. (Click to enlarge). From: University of Washington Library Archives #NA4173. Note: We'll go with the spelling of Whidbey.
An Island Neighbor – Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis
"The Haida believed both animals and people had souls, which were essentially the same. The bodies of different animals were merely their "canoes" and all were capable of assuming other forms at will; "or better, they possessed a human form, and assumed their other forms when consorting with men." The killer whales were believed to …
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Behold the Sun
A Tentative Spring
Sunrise This Morning
January Waiting On the Edge
Coast Douglas-firs Reaching for the Sun
Pacific Return
December Apples
Winter Colors – Greenbank
Native Grove of Rhododendrons
Along the hiking trail at Greenbank Farms woods in central Whidbey Island.
The First Time On The Pacific
The First Time On The Pacific just eighteen. my nerves were adjusted. not only the speed but the direction. the pattern of rush lifted from stars and space, the place between planets and each other. is it black? what does it hold? the place we can't see, cannot understand. but we feel it. it shoots …
A Winter’s Day
Straight of Juan de Fuca
Pacific Northwest Connections Are Critical to Orcas
Baby Island – Inhabitants: Seals Only
Looking West – The Olympics
la mer
The Sea, The Sea
The Sea, The Sea Routine till its not. Sun and wind and blue moving at their own pace yet quickening to work together to follow their natures with pushes and pulls and the wind works the sea and the sea works the sky and the sky works the wind.And we,observers.Yet if we are in the way, in …
Lives All At Once – Whidbey Island
Mt Baker – Facing the Island from the Northwest
Poem – Now It Is
Now It Is motions today are real, and yet they house potentialities that are full. They are not present and yet the scent of them is. it is the mystery of their unfolding that draws me in.
Hanging Out On The Saratoga Passage
Its sort of boring here, good boring. Earthquakes north at Queen Charlotte Islands and the hurricane back east. Its raining and fifty here. So much to do. Its Sunday and we have a full house, isn't it wonderful?
Just Want to See The Magic
Scientists Adopt Tiny Island as a Warming Bellwether
Matthew Ryan Williams for The New York Times Cathy Pfister is part of a team of scientists conducting research on Tatoosh Island, Wash. By STACEY SOLIE Published: October 6, 2012 Scientists Adopt Tiny Island as a Warming Bellwether By STACEY SOLIE TATOOSH ISLAND, Wash. — From a stretch of rocky shoreline on this tiny island, one …
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A Day Looking – Northern Whidbey Island
On the Order of Winter – A Ferry Passage
Winter's approach is revealed in the nuances of the creatures that will gain its full presence. There is the hint of hiddeness yet our senses see.
The Fog Moved In This Morning
We have had nearly sixty days of dry conditons, so the fog this morning was welcome.
Poem – Living Beings – Near a Western Red Cedar
we are the same as those who came before. yet our distance from our kind is great. do we not see that we the living, all of the living, are a clan? each with natures unique but living and this simple fact: our being. existence is a bond so great in this vast universe of …
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San Juan Islands in Winter
This is a series of photographs taken in the winter of 2012. The San Juan Islands rest between Seattle and Vancouver, BC in the Salish Sea. The Salish Sea is part of a body of water that extends the inland sea of the Pacific from Olympia, Washington to Haines, Alaska.
James Hillman – Dream’s Language
Dreams follow their own logic. And the use of logic is a poor choice of words. Is there a beginning, middle and end? Or does our waking mind force the linear script onto the contents? Dreams often do not recognize time and therefore a linear story line is not the point. What is the point? …
Rising and Falling at Once
Zen point offered a wonderful display last evening. Kathryn is tracking the seasons and found this convergence today - the sun setting and moon rising at the same time. It makes you think of possibilities. The third photo shows a visitor who was going to the sun. The final shot is back at home down …
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