Dallas Road Moon

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Edward Abbey

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

Lost Lake Ice Melt

Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the life will be simpler."

Winter Waters

Edward Abbey

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."

McKenzie Bite - More Yukon

Environment

It's too bad that such a poor word has come to refer to something so rich. The forests, the rivers, the mountains, the oceans, the deserts, the beaches, the fields, the flowers, the rain, the sky, the air. To speak of them collectively as the environment is to suggest that they are somehow antiseptic, lifeless. It makes it almost possible to forget that what we are in danger of ruining through our folly is the... green grave that awaits us. Is our heart's delight. Is home.

Frederick Buechner from Wishful Thinking

Victoria: The New Yukon

Wetland...

Stump reflection...

Blue-grey cloudy sky...

Late day sun...

Silhouettes

One more snow storm for Victoria...

After the Rains - Goldstream Images

Alders Painted on Water

I never saw a discontented tree. John Muir

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." John Muir

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."

Oscar Wilde

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Same Here

"Every leaf and twig was this morning covered with a spakling ice armor; even the grasses in exposed fields were hung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveller. It was the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems. It was as though some stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. The scene changed at every step.... There were opal and sapphire and emerald and jasper and beryl and topaz and ruby."

Henry David Thoreau
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Arbutus Christmas

Cost of the tree ... zero.

The numerous double-takes as I drove ... priceless.

My non-cutdown, windfall Christmas tree.

Snow Melt's Reflection