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A black and white photograph. In the foreground a logged over area with piles of debris. In the background a standing second growth forest.
In the distance, the 100-year forest. In the foreground, what’s left when a strip of that forest is felled, yarded, hauled, and most of what’s left is heaped into 4-metre high piles. All of that happened less than 12 months ago. In the next season the forest’s […]
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A black and white photograph of a very large zucchini on a table with a pitchfork.
Gardening fail!
When the zucchini grows into a monster. What now? (The fork is here for my protection.)
#bxw #foto #photography #gardenphotography #Garden #gardens #gardenlife #lazygardener #wildgarden #vancouverisland #paradise #husbandry #divinefeminine […]
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A black and white photograph of a forest scene, with a path through it.
A sunlit path through the 100-year forest.
The North Georgia Plain was once a “loggers paradise.“ Large swaths of even-aged Douglas Fir stood where a large wildfire had raged in the 1600s. By 1940, the larger portion of this “paradise” was felled, yarded, boomed […]
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A black and white photograph of a group of deciduous trees in a small urban park.
The urban forest takes many shapes, appearing in small pockets parks, street plantings, as well as large tracts of set asides. The most impressive can often be the most unassuming. Small places that provide shade and an experience of natural forms.
This is a pocket […]
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A black and white photograph of a bearded man with his right arm on the tiller of a sailboat. A doodle dog is in his lap. Another doodle dog is standing next where they are sitting. They are on a sailboat at sea. There are ripples in the ocean. The sky is clear.
Rev. Hans with the Furry Angels, sailing the Salish Sea on a sunny summer’s day.
#dogs #dogsofmastodon #sailing #salishsea #bxw #foto
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A black and white photograph of a farm field covered in dandelions gone to seed. At the top of the field is a tractor and a barn. The left part of the picture is cut off by a fence post. The strands of fence wire are in the foreground. The photograph is taken at an angle.
“Hey! Hey!” he said again. “Can I help you? Hey! Can I help you?”
He was shouting from up by the barn.
“No,” I said. “I’m trying to get a picture of your dandelions. They caught my eye as I was driving by.”
He was quiet for a moment. “Oh.” Then, “I thought you were […]
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A colour photograph of the forest. A large tree stands at centre, with a grassy area in front of it. Beside and behind stand lesser trees.
Summer, on the edge of the 100-year forest.
#vancouverisland #bxw #forest #colour #nature #summer #tree
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I’m looking south, sitting on the grassy shoulder of a gas line right of way. A rough industrial road runs parallel to a maturing, 100-year forest. The road services the gas line and three hydro lines that, here, cut across hay fields.
The standing forest is […]
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A black and white photograph of a straight trail through the forest.
About 100 years ago the ancient forest in this part of Vancouver Island was a mixed stand of conifers and deciduous trees that had grown up after a massive fire in the late 1600s. Most trees were Douglas Firs, 200+ years old. It was an even-aged stand on the […]
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A black and white photograph of several pears on a branch in an orchard
Pears, descending.
🌀Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let not the fruit-of-action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. (Bhagavad Gita, 2:47)
#fruit #pears #bxw #photography #foto . . #foto #photography #gardenphotography #Garden […]
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A black and white photograph of pears hanging in a tree.
Pears, too.
In my garden. Inspiring my writing today.
ps. This will likely be the featured image for an upcoming chapter in my book, Apprenticeship to Love. Free to those on the “1000 early readers” list. Sign up at http://apprenticeshiptolove.com
#pears #fruit […]
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A black and white photograph of a beach at high tide. A tree stands on the edge of the beach and an industrial breakwater stretches into the bay. Across the water a small town, with boats and a marina in the foreground.
The tide is high at the old booming ground.
The daily ebb and flow of the tides was an important part of my life as a child. My father was a boom man. His summer shifts -and our family activities- followed the rhythms and rhymes of the moon and its watery whims. We […]
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A black and white photograph of a forest floor. A faint path is visible in the thick carpet of vanilla leaf.
A faint deer trail through the Vanilla Leaf in the 100-year wood.
We, my two dogs and I, will often wander off-trail along these deer byways. Some, like this one, are fairly subtle (especially when summer’s vegetation has died back and we’re using hoof-nicked […]
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A black and white photograph of a forest scene.
The 100-year wood is a place of constant change. After logging, and without a mono-crop replanting regime (more or less the norm in the coastal Douglas Fir zone here on the North Georgia Plain), a wide range of species and ages fill the spaces left by the […]
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A black and white photograph of two large trees, surrounded by much younger trees. Most of them also Douglas Firs. In the foreground, a mix of underbrush, including Oregon Grape and a variety of ferns.
In the 100-year woods.
Two large second growth Douglas Firs stand on the edge of a younger stand of Firs. The younger stand may have grown in a clearing (for a field for livestock grazing, or extensive gardens, it’s not clear) made by settlers in the early part of […]
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A black and white photograph of a grand piano being taken apart. Backstage at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver.
“Next, the strings come off.”
MS “Scott” Harker working on a piano at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver.
ps. I learn a lot about music (& whiskey & MLB & writing & pianos) from my friend Scott. I’m also a big fan of his forthcoming book about the “secret life of […]
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An black and white photograph of mixed forest (conifers and deciduous trees), backlit by summer sun. In the foreground, a large boulder, an erratic deposited by areceding ice sheet perhaps 10,000 years ago. In the middle distance, a stump from when the ancient forest was logged approximately 100 years ago. A tombstone of that forest.
In the 100-year wood, on the edge of civilization.
The ancient forest of the North Georgia Plain was more than an unbroken march of 250-400 year old Douglas Firs. There were such marches, but they were regularly broken with patches of Broadleaf Maple, occasions of […]
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A black and white photograph of a garden planter overflowing with large leaved winter squash plants.
Now with ALT TEXT!
Winter squash in the front garden.
My approach to gardening is very much a lazy man’s way. With the exception of watering (and most of the garden is on a drip irrigation system that was installed only because a much more industrious -less lazy- […]
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Winter squash in the front garden.
My approach to gardening is very much a lazy man’s way. With the exception of watering (and most of the garden is on a drip irrigation system that was installed only because a much more industrious -less lazy- friend made it […]
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Most of the rivers on the North Georgia Plain (the relatively flat part of the east side of the Island, between the Malahat in the south and the Sayward Valley in the north) run fast and cold from the mountains to the Salish Sea (fka the Georgia Straight). The […]
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A massive second growth Douglas Fir, remnant of the 100-year wood tucked inside a “pocket park” on the edge of farm fields and the 30-year third growth forest. “Tombstones” from the original forest, logged by settlers approximately 100 years ago. That forest was […]
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Lotte, with Vanilla Leaf. In the 100-year woods.
#bxw #photography #foto #forest #trees #vancouverisland #dogsofmastodon #doodlesofmastodon #silentsunday
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The 100-year wood, with Vanilla Leaf. Mid summer. Only the faint buzz of a solitary mosquito to disturb the deep forest silence. In the distance, on the forest edge, robins calling to each other.
#bxw #photography #foto #silentsunday #forest #trees #vancouverisland
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In the 100-year wood.
A Broadleaf Maple, flanked by two second growth Douglas Firs.
Maples are an important, often under-appreciated, part of the coastal forest here on Vancouver Island.
#bxw #photography #foto #forest #trees #vancouverisland #secondgrowth #douglasfir #maples #forestry
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A trail, a bridge, ferns, and a (mostly dry) creek… in the 100-year woods.
#VancouverIsland #forest #trees #bxw #photography #foto #forestpath #secondgrowth #douglasfir
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en el calle Commercial, abril 18, 2009
https://flic.kr/p/6h7Nkx
#bxw #photography #foto #vancouver #shoes
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One of the last “dolphins” (cluster of pilings) from the old Comox Logging & Railway booming ground at Royston. There are a number of these still standing. They’re now host to birdhouses. Mostly for purple martins and swallows.
I just got in from swimming out to the […]
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Looking north, towards the old Comox Logging & Railway log dump and breakwater. Town of Comox across the bay. At one time during its history the CL&R was the largest private railway operation in the British Empire.
#bxw #photography #foto #vancouverisland #logging #forestry #railways
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“Lotse Potse” (what my granddaughter calls Lotte Lala) just waiting… for walks, for food, for belly rubs, for Jenny
#laladoodles #doodlesofmastodon #dogsofmastodon #foto #bxw #photography
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