I know no-one who appreciates this country better than you do. While I dont share your sentiment about mountains I do share your love if the avian wilds.
Aspen parkland may not be the country in which you dwell, but it has been my home turf for most of my life. As you know from experience it is beautiful county, well supplied with hawks, with eagle nesting in steep hidden coulees, and without a bunch of mountains blocking the view of the scenery. You have done it proud in this essay.
My first sighting of bison, ironically, was in the early 1960's in your home territory, in the Bison (now dismantled) Paddock adjacent to Banff townsite
Loved this evocative feature and its time stamps. For me this type of writing echoes the treasure-trove of PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon, or The Unexpected Universe by palaeontologist Loren Eiseley, a form of nature writing that at its best relies on an alchemist/maven to hold our hand and lead us to where the earth buries its acorns for the winter. Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Beautiful presentation. Thank you Carole! One of my cousins was told years ago at a reunion that we have Blackfoot ancestry- but to my knowledge hasn’t shown in DNA testing. Still, might explain why I have 50 yo trees and shrubs (that I planted) and house plants that make oxygen and require little care.
I know no-one who appreciates this country better than you do. While I dont share your sentiment about mountains I do share your love if the avian wilds.
Thanks Patricia
I believe we all have Indigenous blood of one type or another. You atre doing a good service with your plants
Dear Tariq, thanks sooomuch. Loren Eiseley is an insiration to me, thanks for introducing me to William Least Heat-Moon.
Carole, your descriptions are so rich! I always learn something from you.
Aspen parkland may not be the country in which you dwell, but it has been my home turf for most of my life. As you know from experience it is beautiful county, well supplied with hawks, with eagle nesting in steep hidden coulees, and without a bunch of mountains blocking the view of the scenery. You have done it proud in this essay.
My first sighting of bison, ironically, was in the early 1960's in your home territory, in the Bison (now dismantled) Paddock adjacent to Banff townsite
Loved this evocative feature and its time stamps. For me this type of writing echoes the treasure-trove of PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon, or The Unexpected Universe by palaeontologist Loren Eiseley, a form of nature writing that at its best relies on an alchemist/maven to hold our hand and lead us to where the earth buries its acorns for the winter. Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Beautiful presentation. Thank you Carole! One of my cousins was told years ago at a reunion that we have Blackfoot ancestry- but to my knowledge hasn’t shown in DNA testing. Still, might explain why I have 50 yo trees and shrubs (that I planted) and house plants that make oxygen and require little care.