Driving CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.

"In our town there is a secret spot                                                                                                                                                                                                     (Blood Moon)

where you can still see the stars at night,

believe it or not.                                                                   ( the Campbell river)

It is the only spot like that left,                                        (Alder Street)

unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers

dwindling by.                                    Mt Washington range                         (downtown)

(looking south)

It is a good place to walk...

                                                   

and talk in whispers.

(quadra island)

Following the little hill that rises from the park, to a small clearing..." -Joe Meno

"Vancouver Island, where the wild things are..." -Maurice Sendak

                                                 

"The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and dreamers." - Shannon M. Mullen

(coast mtns)

Photographs 2026 

 

LAST DAY in FEBRUARY...

FROM GITANJALI (XLIV) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 

This is my delight

Thus to wait and watch at the wayside

where shadow chases light and the rain comes

                                             

                in the wake of the summer. Messengers...

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with tidings from unknown skies,

greet me and speed along the road.

                                        

My heart is glad within,

and the breath of the passing breeze is sweet.

                             

                   From dawn till dusk...

I sit here before my door.

                        

               And I know that of a sudden 

the happy moment will arrive when I shall see.

                  In the meanwhile...

I smile and I sing all alone.

In the meanwhile

the air is filling with the perfume of promise.

                        

Photographs 2026

 

NEW SNOW on Mt WASHINGTON RANGE...

THERE WILL BE REST by Sara Teasdale (1889-1933)

                                             

There will be rest,

And sure stars shining

                                                   

Over the roof tops

crowned with snow,

                                                

A reign of rest,

serene forgetting,

                                                            

                              The music of stillness, 

        holy and low.

                                                     I

I will make this world

 of my devising...

                                                

                 Out of a dream

                                in my lonely mind,

I shall find

                                         

            the crystal of peace,

                           above me

                                      

Stars...

                                                 I will find.

                                      

PHOTOGRAPHS FEB 23-2026 Mt. Washington Range, Campbell River, B.C., Canada