by BeeWise | Sep 23, 2014 | Climate, Consumerism, Fracking, Place, Pollution
The people gathered along coordinated routes, organized and grouped by devotion. Estimates exceeded, hoping to be noticed, a representation of 1:100 assumed. Now will we dust off our eyes to trim a few watts, a few degrees, a plastic cup or trip to the store?...
by BeeWise | Sep 15, 2014 | Consumerism, Place, Pollution
The left-behind, always on the fringe, but once recognized, lived again and again. Yes, the modern world is this bad. But an ability to see behind, beyond the scrim, a beautiful reckoning. –...
by BeeWise | Aug 28, 2014 | Native Ecology, Place, Pollinators
Photos taken at Breidel Coulee, La Crosse County Wisconsin on August 27th, 20141. Monarch Butterfly on Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)2. Spur Throated grasshopper (sp.?) on Helenium autumnale (Sneezeweed)3. Variegated Meadowhawk on Scirpus atrovirens (Dark-green...
by BeeWise | Apr 23, 2014 | Consumerism, Place
When humid air rests on arms, bare for the first afternoon in half a year, life begins to happen, and bored eyes begin to re-explore, the sacred spectacle of time. (April in the...
by BeeWise | Apr 23, 2014 | Native Ecology, Place, Pollinators, Uncategorized
A Syrphid fly visits Pasque Flower on a windy spring afternoon. What can you do, in a seasonal desert, but search for perfection, means of living or dying, not by illness, or natural selection, but the economists...
by BeeWise | Nov 20, 2013 | Climate, Place
Tundra Swans on Mississippi River pools, near Brownsville, MN. (click to view photo-stitch then click again to view at 100%) A brief visit, chased by freezing winter. Driven by a pursuit of food, open water, and protection. Over 20,000+ Tundra Swans rest in these...