I am enchanted by snow. Fallen snow is sinuous and soundless. Falling snow is hypnotic, whether viewed on my 80” flat screen world wide window or from skis in the woods; it swirls in clouds, then cascades from spruce boughs.

On this tenth night of soundless and hypnotic snow Willow Creek has disappea...

I once went on a journey, not knowing exactly why,

but I have tried to find out.

We wound our way along the game trail near the creek and just inside the treeline, made ever so slightly more visible by our steps, and over a small rise. Suddenly, and not visible through the trees until we were upon it,...

Christmas! What other celebration expands to include an entire season? We have family traditions, either decades old or new in the making; we have childhood memories and help our children build them; we have beauty to appreciate and meaning to seek; we make gifts; we have bountiful food; we have joy...

One of the more memorable visions of my life came on a cold night on the shore of a mountain lake somewhere in Colorado. The temperature is -15°; snow squeaks loudly under boots. I watch the constellation Orion, near dawn, in crystalline air. Diamond dust falls sparkling in starlight. The land is fr...

I am so busy, I don’t know how I had time to work. Such a well-worn phrase, but I am wearing it well, I think.

Days are filled with watching the world turn from monochrome to technicolor on a big screen, simple tasks, problem solving, checking the weather, staring out the window, listening to music,...

Gray Jays are great companions. They mostly just want to be fed twice a day, especially when the unruly gang of ten blue Steller's Jays aren't hogging the handouts. One of the many highlights of my day is to put out feed at dawn for the birds where it disappears in a squabbling frenzy. The birds, ev...