Category Archive: plants

Dune Pondering

Note from somewhere on Highway 101… So, with my year’s project done way ahead of schedule, I have to ask myself, what now? What new rabbit do I pull out of the hat?… Continue reading

Way Back Machine: Morocco

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst” Henri Cartier-Bresson I got my first camera when I was 7 years old. I took my first photography class when I was 16. I’m dancing ever closer… Continue reading

Dearest Constellation

Nature abhors a straight line. I had originally planned a trip into the Alvord Desert in far southeast Oregon to gather the last bit of material for Cantrip and Loveletter. However, impassable roads… Continue reading

White Noise

I was going to call this The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, but I hear Milan Kundera is easy to piss off and I kinda like his work, so I refrained from the truly… Continue reading

Satyr vs. Naiad

I don’t think I look anything like a goat, but I certainly began to feel like one this weekend. Taking advantage of the sunshiny day, I rode off to one of my favorite watering… Continue reading

After the Storm…

This weekend, Portland was uncharacteristically covered over with a layer of snow and ice which derailed plans, brought an strange silence to the city, and gave a lot of us a break from… Continue reading

Sacred Process

At thirteen, I began to unwind myself from organized religion, not because I lacked belief in an unseen and unprovable world, but in part because the rituals and dogma of any one faith seemed too… Continue reading

Eating Sunday: Whipped Cream and Other Delights

I confess to owning this album, but sadly no one was dressed up in whipped cream for this post… At various times and for various reasons, I have given up meat, forsaken pork… Continue reading

Eating Sunday: Breakfast Mechanics

Or, why you don’t want to eat dinner with me on Sundays… I’ve been wanting to do breakfast for dinner for awhile now, but it seemed a bit overwhelming for the hot days… Continue reading

Eating Sunday – Get Happy!

I am no believer in the fallacy of foodstuffs as aphrodisiacs and this post isn’t about sex (I swear!). But I believe in the psychology of what food can mean and do to us. In dream interpretation, there… Continue reading