A Walk to the Playground
Photos of Spring flowers in Victoria BC, what's interesting to a 2-year old, and resisting kicking a snarling dog.
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Beautiful Tiny Beach
Photos of minutiae and creatures I observed on of one of the beaches on the Songhees Trail in Victoria BC. Tiny, perfect details are what I seek in what I see, create, and surround myself with.
read moreMy Perfect Outing
Every day, I mentally try to force the chaos of the day into the paradigm of floating zen music bowls rather than a highway pile up in the fog. By taking several deep breaths in a kind of impromptu meditation, I can usually force down the daily irritations. However, at roughly high noon, I need release from the physical, emotional, and mental attention that my family requires of me. Now and then, the camera gods give me a sign.
read moreJoyous New Life of Spring
My son was born this week. When I left for the hospital, the magnolia tree outside my daughter's room was still in tightly wrapped fuzzy buds. When I arrived home three days later, it was stretching out fuchsia pink blooms. It's a beautiful day.
read morePainting Dragons
I've been painting dragons lately. On canvas, in my mind, and with words. Dragons are amazingly, and almost inexplicably present in a huge range of cultures. Scratch beneath the surface of ideas of where they came from and you'll find that the theories are shaky at best, and nobody really knows how dragons first entered human culture.
read moreIrrational Beauty
I am constantly amazed by the complex order of nature. Take trees for example. You look at most of them and they're pretty random, right? Wrong!
read moreStalled
On Saturday we saw a man trying to commit suicide. He had one leg hooked over the bridge railing and was staring towards the lights of the Inner Harbour. It was night and he was dressed in a dark track suit with sneakers and white socks. He strode purposefully over the bridge and stopped off centre where he hooked his leg and stood staring at the water as we drove by. We turned the car around and stopped in our lane right behind him.
read moreVivacious Fall
I love the fall. I love the healthy, sweetly decaying smell of fall. I love the driving rain that rattles the leaves from the trees. I love the bold, infinitely variable swaths of colour that dress the trees before they strip themselves naked and black against the mercurial sky. [...]
read moreContinuous vs Continual
The last several weeks have been very busy. I’ve completely renovated and organized the Rook Nook so that I can create en force without fear...
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