The Daily Bucket– The Creek's Roaring and Billy's Watching
Hard rains just swept across NW Oregon and vicinity. The creeks climbed their banks. I watch Rock Creek, and its tributaries that flow through Bethany Lake, ten miles west of … Read More
Category: Gaia
Proof there is a Gaia in Heaven.
The Proud Boys are assembling, with firearms, in North Portland’s Delta Park. Police predicted twenty thousand of these dangerous folk will attend. The Boys call for revenge for the killing … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Ready, Steady GO!
The Tualatin Valley of Northwest Oregon forms a shallow bowl, about 50 miles in diameter, with 1000-2000 foot tall eroded volcanoes walling in the lowlands, separating the region from the … Read More
The Daily Bucket–A Tree for the Redwood Man.
He wakes up at dawn and peeks out the window, looking for the heron feeding at the fishpond in the first light. No heron yet today. He starts the espresso … Read More
The Daily Bucket–The Tadpoles of August
In August, many tadpoles in my hand-dug backyard ponds change into small chorus frogs. For several years now, the frogs have returned to my backyard in March, bred in the … Read More
When can we admit our president has dementia? He just declared the Moon is part of Mars.
I can’t wait to hear how Huckabee Sanders is going to spin this. The “stable genius” who wants to spend billions of tax dollars building a “Space Force” to defeat … Read More
The Daily Bucket–The Snail Whisperer
I recently set up a 5 gallon aquarium and germinated lotuses in it from storied seeds. I purchased two Japanese “trapdoor” snails to eat the aquarium’s algae. They just had … Read More
Bulldozers V. Butterflies
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Trump and his minions. Here are reproductions of posts and narratives from the website of the National Butterfly Center, covering their demonstration and … Read More
The Daily Bucket–Flooded!!
This week of dire weather forecasts for the Pacific Northwest saw a year’s worth of snow fall on Seattle in a few remarkable days. Yet the lower elevations of Washington County, … Read More
The Daily Bucket–May Gaia help Rock Creek!
Rock Creek tumbles down the side of extinct volcanoes, through farmers’ fields, under highways, and along my suburbs west of Portland Oregon. It bisects a golf course, drains lakes, dodges through … Read More
An Environmental Justice Agenda from Illinois Coal & Fracking Fighters
Illinois is facing an extraction crisis. Expanded coal mining and the looming threat of fracking will create an unprecedented two-pronged threat to southern and central Illinois. Grassroots groups on the … Read More
