This month, I had the opportunity to teach an environmental writing workshop at MING Studios in response to the themes of RIPARIA, a multimedia collaborative art exhibition that explores our relationship with water. RIPARIA is the brainchild of the Ecogeoglyphic Observatory, a Boise-based eco-collective.
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Workshop | Bird Words with Golden Eagle Audubon Society
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to lead a nature writing workshop with the Golden Eagle Audubon Society at the Foothills Learning Center.
Reading | Writers Read (Star, ID)
This month, I had the opportunity to read from my forthcoming poetry collection Lost Cathedral as part of the Writers Read series at the Ada Community Library in Star, ID.
Residency | Cape Disappointment State Park (Long Beach Peninsula)
In May and early June, I spent time at Cape Disappointment State Park as an artist-in-residence in the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. I spent a week hiking through coastal rainforests, headlands, beaches, and coves on Cape Disappointment and the Long Beach Peninsula.
Continue readingResidency | The Rice Place (Oregon)
In May, I spend a week at The Rice Place, an artist residency in Oregon. The Rice Place was named for novelist and memoirist Clyde Rice, who published his first book (the memoir A Heaven in the Eye) at eighty one.
The residency took place at Rice’s former home, a 1930s farm house situated within 10 acres of farmland along the Clackamas River, views of lush foliage from every window.
Continue readingSeaside Coastal Wildflowers of Pacifica and San Francisco (Northern California)
Last spring, I spent time in northern California in the San Francisco area. This post documents some of the May and June coastal wildflowers I saw while hiking near San Francisco and Pacifica.
Continue readingHabitat Restoration in Military Reserve and Diane Moore Nature Center
Last month, I had the opportunity to do habitat restoration for the city of Boise by planting seedlings in Fort Boise Military Reserve Park and along the Boise River Side Channel.
Continue readingWildflowers of Mores Mountain | Boise National Forest
For a few years, I’ve been learning the native wildflowers on Mores Mountain in the Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area within the Boise National Forest. Mores Mountain is known for spectacular views and incredible wildflower displays, the best I’ve seen in the Treasure Valley. I thought I’d share some of the flowers I saw on the trails in May, June, and July.
It’s Wildfire Season Again In The West
I love the arid, mountain landscapes of the West. I love the native wildflower and animal species that live in mountain ecosystems. I love the aridity of the desert. I love its total lack of humidity and 100+ degree heat.
But with the aridity of the western landscape comes fire season with its forest fires and wildfires.
Last summer there were forest fires burning in Idaho and two adjoining states at around the same time. The smoke from all of them was blowing down into Boise. For weeks, the city was ensconced in a hazy layer of burning, lung-clogging smoke.
This is normal.
It’s like that in every state in the West.
The Moon By Day Or Night (Photo Essay)
The moon is a good time no matter what time of day or night you see it.
It is my favorite spherical object. It is like the little black dress of the landscape.
Observe.
Here is a moon that is part Yin-yang of the landscape.
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