Crow Roost Twilight Bike Ride

ALL WELCOME for this friendly Bike Ride on Saturday Feb 2 Meet at 4pm at Lakewood Drive at the Central Valley Greenway (also known as North Great Northern Way). Bring: snacks to share if you care to do so, and maybe a hot thermos for yourself. Remember warm clothes, Bike Lights, and Bring Kid-friends too….

flowers for mom

i made some flowers for my mom   to celebrate her birthday. Lilies are her favorite. She said to me, “ah, now my lilies are not yet over for the season!” to find her treasure (the flowers) mom followed ten cryptic clues we laughed at our site-specific foibles, our love of this place, our family home,…

invitation to mindful moment

On the banks of beautiful Still Creek in Burnaby, BC i worked with a group of community artists and the Still Moon Arts Society to create the Spirit Fish Festival. Kyira Korrigan helped me create this Invitation to Mindful Moment    which I image recreating in Stanley Park some day. INVITATION You are invited to…

Q: Why practice creativity?

ANSWER: to transform old structures including:    local and global over-production and resource use     the illusion of separateness within our skin / sense of encapsulated and isolated selves     individual habit-patterns + responses     also     alienation / isolation I said something similar here old reused local from a time before vinyl or aluminum when someone…

THANKS and i miss my homies

jenna lives with me at the Beehive Collective House. She runs a school called Soaring Eagle Nature School. Ya she does! She asked me to help create a thank you card for her to give to her summer students and campers. She provided the cool stuff (buckskin, baby bird of prey skull, handmade nettle fiber…

ninety two : things i did and saw at the farm part 3

justy taught me how to make soap and we did after the neighbour came over with his tractor-attached-auger and dug holes for the alpaca fence we discovered great wads of clay    what better to make a house with?   love the viscereal feel and manual work we shared to prepared the clay

eighty five : lushness

took pictures for my friend’s wedding announcement his afternoon    it was lush and drippy under the dome

eighty three : video beginnings

non-sequenced dance cards    aka shotlist    for a new B:C:Clettes video (did you know we have a new website?)      cards created by combined effort of Alana and Red in Hamilton, Ontario and the results?     ta daaaaaaa yes beautiful     i agree     video will feature much stop-motion animation     with stills like these    will gladly post video when…

eighty two : hot pink

prepping for a costume     where my familiar red black and shiny gets mixed with HOT PINK EEK! close inspection reveals my lovely parents captured here as i show off my new    uh   shirt

eighty : my sister’s baby makes mom so happy

rose-coloured glasses gave this picture it’s shine   blue sky   magnolia tree   even a rose-coloured car! i’m a grammy and everyone is healthy! mom and dad celebrating     and what a time to be born   in blossoms! why so happy? my sister’s baby is born!    Heiko Cedar Ingram-Ross my sister elissa and her husband patrick  …

seventy seven : massive edge landscapes

spectacular march bicycle trip on the oregon coast with allison.   characterized by unheardof snow    extremely high winds    hail    hardy days spent outdoors exploring in the company of elk, peregrines, eagles, hummingbirds, ferns.    The spotted owl and marbled murrelet remain illusive.

seventy six : 25 feet of sh#t plus discarded cedar

two bundles tied with fresh inner-bark of clear cut cedar    braided     materials gathered from logging road in fraser valley near deroche     picture taken a year ago    now i’ve got this broken measuring tape

seventy five : lunch as art

home made turnip pickle    home roasted warm sunflower seeds    salad    grated beets    red cabbage    sunshine     ✔

seventy three : strong beautiful cyclists in my life

b:c:clettes did a photo shoot on the weekend.     while getting ready i listened to a Hugo Chavez speech     and was inspired by his words:     mobilize the human spirit thanks for taking the picture mom    i mean linda    who is lori’s mom