Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Going back to Mother








                                                          Now I Lay Me Down

Many things have touched me deeply,...none comparing with the others, but this fallen Totem on Nootka Island's Friendly Cove Vancouver Island B.C., being taken back to it's Mother by the rain forest, has touched the roots of my soul in such a way that stands aside from all that has touched me deeply. Put me in no box when I resign, just lay me down in the forest to return to my Mother. Nearby was the Totem Carvers workshop, where he worked passionately on a Totem for a young girls grave, head banging rock music filling the sky with the energy he needed to get through the emotional task. The finished product was a reverent piece of spiritual art.

~J~moonmango            8/1/12

8/1/12

  





The Newly carved  Gravesite Totem
   two years later (2010)
Bookmiss perhaps? 



Stroking the nose of Brother Bear    

Brother Bear, my favorite                                 


Sunday, February 19, 2012

Above the Inlet & beyond

This blog has gone by the wayside for a spell as somehow my focus has veered. With my motivation to explore feeling a bit dampened today, my mind wanders to past explorations, soooo, thus this post of my hikes along a favored logging road leading towards Tahsis Mt that takes one high above the inlet with views of the estuary, the Narrows, Nootka Sound and all who pass by float plane or boat. Each year I made an adventure out of this road, trying something new each time. Usually was just me & the bears.
This one makes want to head North! It is not the logging road, but the Maquinna trail above the Inlet as well. What a day Brenda & I had! Two women above it all!
 Conversation between Brenda & I while riding bikes one day: Brenda- "That's a nice bike". Me: "Yea, I like it, but I want to take the stickers off". (Brenda looks at me like I'm a martian) "It just seems too decorated." Brenda- "Oh, you mean decals!  Do you guys say rufers? you know for fixing the roooof?" Turns out Candians don't speak the same language as Americans!

Blue Heron on the way to the road
Whit Pine butterfly



Uchuck comin' in, taken from above
A new logging road heading to Tahsis Mountain
will make it easier when I return to get there!

Nootka!

My always destination!


Cold Tahsis Mt. runnoff always felt great after bushwhacking through new growth Hemlock on a hot day hiking up, up, up...




Looking down on the Estuary, Village of Tahsis in the background



  












Bearie pie

The Narrows with boats
Fireweed
Mama Grouse (chicks nearby tucked away)
Wild onion & wildflowers
Young bear
Look closely and you'll see the bear that was eating the blueberries I was after!
Runnaway Bear
Bear print on the path