"the walk liberating, I was released from forms,

from the perpendiculars,     

straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds

of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends

and blends of sight: "

from Corsons Inlet

    A.R. Ammons

Went for another walk along the seawall

early one morning and turned towards the trees.

So many choices.

I found a group of friends enjoying what is

obviously a regular play date.

And a really beautiful Varied Thrush.

I worked in the Crowsnest pass area of the

Alberta Rockies for a couple summers while I was

in achaeology it was quite beautiful, but I

have to admit I enjoyed the prairies, the foothills,

the Aspen parklands more, and of couse I love

the sea but I could not go to Stanley Park 

without a photo of the mountains.

"At first he was out with the dawn
whether it yellowed bright as wood-columbine
or was only a fuzzed moth in a flannel of storm
But he found the mountain was clearly alive
sent messages whizzing down every hot morning
boomed proclamations at noon and spread out
a white guard of goat
before falling asleep on its feet at sundown"

Bushed

Earle Birney