Archive for the ‘Wild Nature’ Category
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
It is time now to finish the story of the medicine walk and apprenticing on the CA Fall Fast last October. The night before the fasters were due to return, I had a powerful dream. The dream showed me that something had shifted in my psyche as a result of ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Hi Amy,
I'm answering you as a blog entry rather than a comment, so I can include photos. I've puzzled over the pictures you sent me of marks on a tree, as well as the details about measurements and known wildlife in your area. I also consulted with an expert woodswoman.
The ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
The mystery of the bear poo was solved on Tuesday! I was coming back from a run, along the road by the outhouses, heading toward the barn to get some mouse bait. As the clearing by the barn came into view, I saw four shapes on the grass. It took ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
A: Yes, and so can you!
Okay, you're probably thinking I've totally flipped out, if you didn't already think this after some of my previous entries about mouse turds, including "The mystery of the dead animal in my living room," and the moving song "Blue turd on my window sill."
But the ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
It's been a while since I wrote about some mysterious winter visitors that I thought could be wild horses. A friend had recently told me about encountering wild horses near Merritt in the 60s, and the idea of wild horses is very romantic, so I guess I wanted the creatures ...
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Moose in the meadow
Last Saturday morning I was sitting on the porch having tea and brekkie, looking out over the creek now and then but mostly reading a good mystery novel. I heard some splashing sounds to my left, and looked up. Lo and behold, a young male moose emerged ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
On a run at Monkey Valley recently, a magical thing happened. I was running up the road, and saw a magnificent female moose in the meadow beside the road. She saw me too, we looked at each other for a little, and then she moved away up the hill.
I felt awe ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Good news! I wrote previously about the trail expansion on the Twin Bridges trail and my concern that regular vehicle traffic would be permitted on my favourite running trail, disturbing a magical pocket of wilderness and the creatures who live there, including the black bear I spotted on my run ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Last night I went for another run and skinny dip in the Seymour River. This time I went down the Twin Bridges trail, which is closed for trail work. I felt worried as I ran down the trail and saw that they are widening it and gravelling it. The sign ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
A recent discovery at Monkey Valley inspired me to write this homage to John Denver:
Blue turd on the counter makes me happy
Blue turds in my bed can make me cry
Blue turd means the mouse has found the poison
Blue turd means the mouse is going to die
I was very moved by ...
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