The perfect circle?

Impossible

Not to develop

Into the perfect circle

Where the river used to flow

Imagine walking

Where the river

Used to flow

Gushing spring melt water

Chilcotin oxbow-

Gushing spring

Melt water

Snow sky morning

Snow sky morning

Winter sun soaring

North wind roaring

Where am I going?

Chilcotin river flowing

Cold west wind blowing

Where am I going?

Study but do not touch!

Study

Scrutinize

Do not touch!

Sage painted into the grass

Painted into grass-

Observe the beauty

Sense the aroma

Seasoned beauty

Seasoned beauty-

Coming out of

Snow and ice

Snow sage

Snow sage-

Seized by wind

Scorched by sun

Imaging wood flowing like water

Imagine threads of

Wood flowing

Like water

Chilcotin Morning

Chilcotin morning-

Hearing the wind

Seeing the dust

The path less traveled by?

The narrow path

Through the wood

Less traveled by?

Lichen blanket comfort

Lichen blanket-

Warm and cozy

Soothing comfort

Free spirit of the Chilcotin

Can you find

The free spirit

Of the Chilcotin?

Chilcotin grasslands- where not to sit for lunch!

Chilcotin grasslands-

Where not to sit

For lunch!

Ready for spring nesters

Ready

For spring

Nesters

Can a crow soar like an eagle?

Can a crow

Soar like

An eagle?

Peaking out from a winter frozen in ice

Peaking out

From a winter

Frozen in ice

Patterns emerging from snow and ice

Repeating patterns of

Self similarity emerging

From snow and ice

Lichen bear waking up

Lichen bear

Emerges from

Winter hibernation

My friends all call me big bird!

My friends

All call me

Big bird!

What do you see?

Stare intensely into

An ancient aspen-

What do you see?

Catch me if you can!

Chase crow-

Catch me if

You can!

Photosynthesis creating green growth?

How does photosynthesis

Create this beautiful

Green growth?

Most handsome man to visit the feeder?

Most handsome

Man to visit

Mikee’s feeder?

We love Mikee's place!

We love Mikee’s-

Wonderful food

No cats or dogs

Aspen sap looking like summer honey

Aspen sap

Looking like

Summer honey

Spring geranium beauty

Spring geranium

Beauty and

Fragrance

Unaffected from wintering in ice

Lichen and moss-

Unaffected from

Wintering in ice

Escaping winter ice still beautiful

Ostrich fern

Escaping ice

Still beautiful

Can you sense the warmth of spring sun?

Can you sense

The gentle warmth

Of spring sun?

Imagine soft

Imagine soft-

Then touch

A lamb’s ear

With the thaw, an explosion of fragrance

With the thaw-

An explosion

Of fragrance

Powered by snow and ice

Powered

By snow

And ice

Only yesterday covered in snow!

Only yesterday-

Covered in snow

Fully frozen

Will the shade save me?

Will shade

From tall grass

Save me?

Spring sun mining beauty

Spring sun

Mining

Beauty

Wind wafting winter grasses

Not wanting to lose

The beauty of wind

Wafting winter grasses

Winter is over and so am I

Warm spring sun-

Winter is over

And so am I

Could spring sun return autumn leaves?

Imagine if spring sun

Could return

Autumn leaves

Fleeing the feeder

Fleeing the feeder-

Don’t want Mikee

To take my picture!

Wishing this winter bouquet would last forever

Wishing this 

Winter bouquet 

Would last forever

Imagine Albert Einstein sculpted in ice

Imagine

Albert Einstein

Sculpted in ice

Why do chives always grow first?

Why are

Chives always

The first to grow?

We like nesting at Mikee's

Nesting at Mikee’s-

Close to the lake

Very good karma

Phantom of the feeder

Phantom of the feeder-

Gobbled up and lost

In afternoon sun

On target for afternoon peanut butter

Final flight path-

Right on target for

Afternoon peanut butter

Spring sun on winter ice

Spring sun bursting

On battered

Winter ice

What do you see?

Breathe in

Breathe out

What do you see?

Will I ever see red roses or green grass?

My only wish

Is to see red roses

And fields of green grass