Rusty Ring

(Appearing also on My Corner of the World .)

When I encountered this florist-worthy flower on a bike ride through local prairie country, I was certain it must be a garden ...

(I found this large round growth, which when dry closely resembles a dried gourd, on a garry oak [Quercus garryana] at the Fort Eaton mon...

(These are the lyrics to one of my Buddhist country and western songs, offered here in honour of Hallowe'en.) If you come ...

(Camas [Camassia quamash] is the clarion of spring where I grew up. Back in the day it covered hundreds of miles of open prairie, and...

(When settlers first came here, most of the Puget Sound Basin was prairie, in two configurations: grassland, with few trees, and parkl...

(On this site stood one of the first homesteads in the neck of Thurston County, Washington, where I grew up. During the Blockhouse War...

Pullman is improbable. Even from a distance, the town looks, not out of place, but out of epoch. In theory it's a typical prairie ...

"Where to now?" I leaned on the truck's hood and stared at the back of the ram's head, but my chromed companion rem...