"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world..." -John Muir
That gorgeous pine tree, from the corner property,was taken down last week. It's roots were travelling too close to the house foundations. And the tree leaned. A lot. Imagine it plopping down across the street, during a winter storm. Ouch."Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs..."-Sri Chaitayna
So the tree came down...
And DOWN...
On one of the days when smoke was drifting in, over Mt. Washington Range. I'd never seen the full southern portion of the range, because of the tree.And lo, and behold, there was SKY....so big, so vast, so wonderful. For the first time in the twenty years I've lived here (wowzers). I could see the entire range. And the sky...that incredible sky."Even after all this time......the Sun never says to the earth: "You owe me"Look what happens with a love like that...It lights up the whole sky." -Hafiz a
The view from my house on the hill. Best view in Campbell River, B.C., I would hazard a guess.That beautiful old tree.The entire neighbourhood stood and watched it being cut down. It's time had come. Look what it gave in return. The best gift in the world. The expanse of the sky, the full range from South to North, the sun, the moon, the stars at night, the crickets in summer, and snow in winter."Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky..." -Khalil Gibran
Photographs 2026
"Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air..."
-Emerson
"In summer, the song sings itself..." -William Carlos Williams
"Watching the clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time..." -John Lubbock
Simon and Rona-Wallace Stevens
"Let us dance in the sun wearing wildflowers in our hair..." -Susan Polis Schutz
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” — Regina Brett"Summertime is always the best of what might be..." -Charles Bowden
Tyee Spit
Quadra island Coast mtns -E.Lockhart
"Oh Sunlight. The most precious gold to be found on Earth..." -Roman Payne
"The slow breeze and the summer sun write our memories..."-Debasish Mridha
Photographs 2026
"Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. calm as still water..." -George R.R. Martin
We have deer, coming and going, usually staying. All day. Sleeping in the blueberries. Under the rhodos. In the dirt. Chewing. Snoring... Watching..."A pine needle fell in the forest. A deer heard it..." -Edith Pattou
Always watching. Drinking. Slurping...Making jelly beans. The licorice kind..."The two deer ran for the sheer joy of running......flashes of sunlight gleaming on their flanks......invisible and dark shapes moving through the forest..." -Elizabeth Lim
"Follow the stag, a voice whispered, for he is the guardian of the forest...Fleeing danger to well-worn tracks..." -Stewart Stafford
"And the deer...how beautiful they are,as though their bodies did not impede them,Slowly they drift into the open...through bronze panels of sunlight..." -Louise Gluck
Photographs 2026
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Simon and Rona
Tyee Spit
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