February is the wink of a many-seasoned grandmother. Winter can feel, weaving darkness into most of our waking hours, day after cold dark day, as if it will not end. We are left to journey on the vitality of the thinnest thread of light. It is not easy holding the vision of seeing beyond the [...]
Our forest cottage sits on terraced property a few hundred feet from the river. Two seasons a year in an ancient tradition of migration, the river serves as a super waterway for salmon returning from the sea to their point of origin.
Arriving at the mouth of the river, the salmon will spawn a new [...]
