Winter moonlight illuminating an ice crystal

Winter moonlight

Gently illuminating

A solitary ice crystal

Bighorn sheep- unsafe to cross

Bighorn sheep herd -

Ram gesturing

Not to cross

Waiting to cross the Fraser River

Waiting for freeze-up

To cross the Fraser River

And get back home

Water in the high Chilcotin

The high Chilcotin -

Water seen only by

Hawks and goats

When we vanish Gaia will quickly recover

When we vanish

Gaia will quickly recoup

Her original beauty

Telling the eagle where to fish?

Is the Dean River

Telling the eagle

Where to fish?

Beauty from ashes

Beauty from ashes

To commemorate

A long life

Wings of the phoenix from burned forest ashes

Golden wings

Of the mythical phoenix

From ashes of burned forest

Beauty from renewal sealed in the shadows

Beauty from renewal

Rejuvenation and rebirth

Sealed in the shadows

Winter red cherries

Spring buds

Summer flowers

Winter red cherries

Winter moon bouncing off snow

Full winter moon

Bouncing off snow

Under the mountain ash

Northern Flicker feasting on berries

A winter love affair –

Northern Flicker feasting on

Sea Buckthorn berries

Swishing of air over wings

Quiet summer afternoon -

Swishing and whooshing

Of air over wings

Enough light for black cats

Four billion year sun -

Enough illumination

To soothe black cats

Hawk over Hunlen Falls

Suddenly into the light -

A Red-tailed Hawk

Ascending and soaring

Only goats have seen this canyon - until now

Until now

Only goats

Have seen this canyon

Nature's water colors painted by wind

Nature’s water colors

Painted and pushed

By afternoon wind

When the ice goes away so do we

Is it true that when

The ice goes away

So do we?

Imagine our world with no snow and ice

Imagine our world

With no snow and ice

And unable to breathe

Winter beauty

Summer green

Autumn color

Winter beauty

Evening ice flowers- winter moon rising

Evening ice flowers

Glowing on glass -

Winter moon rising

Strings of ice flowers glowing on glass

Strings of ice flowers

Blooming in the sun

Glowing on glass

Where is Gaia's last fresh water?

Where are these

Mountains of ice-

Gaia’s last fresh water?

Where the Prairie falcon lives

Why does the Prairie Falcon

Raise her chicks

Among this beauty?

Caged in ice with Raven overhead

Caged in winter ice-

Catching sight of Raven

Circling overhead

Beauty of grass after the fire

Beauty of grass

In the early spring

After the fire

Raven in heaven

Soaring over winter aspen

Riding the Chinook wind-

Raven in heaven

Summer's beauty sealed in ice

For the winter-

Summer’s beauty

Sealed in ice

Gone with the wind or hungry moose?

Gone with the wind

And heavy snow

Or the hungry moose? 

Shards and ice splinters clank and clash

After the rapids

Shards and ice splinters

Clanking and clashing

How did the wolf pack find the ice pony?

On this winter night

How did the wolf pack

Find the ice pony?

Marasuchus catching his supper

Is that Marasuchus

Catching his supper

In the Fraser River?

Lost in the desert- attacked by wolves

Lost in the desert-

Weakened from thirst

Attacked by wolves

Sapphire snake lake

Sapphire snake lake-

Tranquil and still

In a bed of snow

Ice blocks rapidly melting

Ice blocks growing

For thousands of years

Rapidly melting

Haida totum carved from Kiidk'yaas?

Uncovered here

The only Haida totum

Carved from Kiidk‘yaas?

Endless ice fields waiting for the moon

Endless ice fields-

Moving blue rivers

Waiting for the moon

Winter moon bouncing off the ice

Is that the winter moon

Bouncing of the face

Of the Monarch ice field?

Silence only in winter

Silence to be delivered

Only in the brief days

Of deepest winter

Aztec Sun Stone announcing winter solstice

Aztec Sun Stone

Announcing winter solstice

To the burned forest

Dark night in the burned forest

Dead dark night

In the burned forest-
But then the moon

Moonlight shimmering off burned bark

 Winter moonlight

Shimmering off

Burned bark

The photographed observing the photographer

The photographed

Curiously observing

The photographer

Summer's evening loon's fishing

Summer’s evening

Loon’s fishing

Moon’s beaming

Is that the moon wailing?

Is that the moon

Wailing sadly

Into the black night?

Fraser River flowing through the winter moon

Fraser River flowing

Through the ripples

Of the winter moon

Fraser River following the moon

Fraser River

Following the moon

To the sea

Too fat to fly?

Basking in winter sun

Full of berries

Too fat to fly?

Churn Creek feeding the Fraser River beauty

Churn Creek-

Feeding the Fraser River

Rhythms of rhyming beauty

Fraser River - everyday a journey home

Fraser River

Everyday a journey

The journey itself is home