Please, would you be my friend?

Please-

Would you

Be my friend?

Memories in ancient bark

Lions and lizards?

Memories retained

In ancient bark

Am I the ugly duckling?

Am I really

The ugly

Duckling?

Would you please be my friend?

Would you

Please be

My friend?

Photographing mud people

Photographing

Chilcotin River

Mud people

My ice people can never enjoy this beauty

My ice people

Can never enjoy

This beauty

Only the spring drives ice people apart

Frozen together-

Only the spring

Drives us apart

Sharing stories about the Rainbow Range

Sharing stories

About life in

The Rainbows

Goodbye ice people!

Goodbye ice people

We are ready

For spring!

Soon we must say goodbye

Spring is coming

Soon we must

Say goodbye

Please don't leave me again

I’m glad you’re back-

Promise me you

Won’t leave again

What do you see on the Madrona tree?

Take a long look-

What do you see

On the Madrona tree?

Academy award for best eyes!

Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

Academy award

For best eyes!

Pay attention to ancient tree roots

Pay attention

To ancient

Tree roots

Dreaming of the aroma of sage!

Riding the metro-

Dreaming of smells

Of sage in fog

Secrets in decaying wood?

Searching for

Secrets locked up

In decaying wood

Loving the grasslands

Is it possible

Not to love

The grasslands?

Stopped from seeking home

The only way

For him to stop

Seeking home

Can you find 100 faces?

Don’t stop looking

Until you have seen

One hundred faces

Thoughts when drinking clean water in Vancouver?

Thoughts when drinking

Sparkling clean water

In Vancouver?

Want to visit?

Want to visit?

But who can show

You the way?

Between me and my warm house!

In the snowstorm

What stands between me

And my warm house?

How to brighten up a winter day

Best way to

Brighten up

A winter day?

What do you see?

Pause

Breathe deeply

What do you see?

I miss you!

I miss you

But I know

Where you are!

I missed you!

I missed you!

Where have

You been?

Could use pollinators!

Hazel sisters-

Could use

Pollinators

A choir singing in the garden?

A choir

Singing

In the garden?

Delights from a winter walk

Small delights

From a winter

Walk 

Why leave the city?

Why leave the city

And return to

The Chilcotin?

Don't tread on me

Don't

Tread

On me

What do you see?

Stare deeply-

Tell yourself

What you see

What to imagine when stressed out

What to imagine

When stressed out

Living in the city

Imagine a world without moonlight?

Imagine a world

Without the shine

Of winter moonlight?

Walking to feast on green grass

Visualize him walking

Down steep walls
For green grass

Following your intuition pays off!

Sometimes it pays

To follow your

Intuition!

A word to the wise is sufficient

A word to

The wise

Is sufficient

Snake finding beauty

Snake slithering-

Seeking insects

Finding beauty

Petroglyphs on ancient glaciers

Petroglyphs exposed

On melting faces

Of ancient glaciers

Stop and stare

Stop, stare

Breathe in

Breathe out

Sunlight and moonlight are always alike

Where sunlight

And moonlight

Are always alike 

Six months ago in sunny summer?

Beneath the snow

Six months ago

In sunny summer?

Limbs waving in winter wind

Old and lazy

Limbs wave

In winter wind

Stay put and enjoy!

Can’t walk around

Can’t walk through

Stay put and enjoy!

Where spiders thrive

Do we fear

Dark cool places

Where spiders thrive?

Tree fairies hiding

Tree fairies-

Hiding from

City people

The rock and willow need each other

Grants shelter and

Sanctuary from

Winter winds

Discovered in the city?

Could this beauty

Be discovered

In the city?

In need of a winter pollinator

What if no bees

Visit this winter

Beauty?

Safe to eat?

Deep in the forest

Totally famished

Safe to eat?