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Cliff Crego
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🎶 Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble. On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 Composing off-grid the whole way. 🌕 #Sun2Sound WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS
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#wildflowers WING-FRUITED MARIPOSA LILY (Mariposa eurycarpus) wildly abundant 1350m #WALLOWAS #OREGON

Nectar glands outlined w/ tiny hairs
create an irresistible invitation
• Generalist Pollinator From sweat bees
to beetles, wasps, bee-flies—the lily
hosts 12s of buzzing visitors

#nativeplants
#Gedicht #Musik TODESFUGA, Paul Celan von Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/....

A masterpiece….

“der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Sulamith”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Geige #viool #violin #musicsky #poetry
TODESFUGA, a soundscape on a poem by Paul Celan
LISTEN to an historic recording of Paul Celan performing TODESFUGA mp3 [4Mb] http://www.picture-poems.com/mp3/paul-celan.mp3
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November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Cliff Crego
#NativePlants The miracle of leaf venation! #Patterns to study closely #Ribes (Currents) & #Hydrophyllum (Waterleaf)

If you #WALK 🥾 or #BIKE & avoid
using CARS, it becomes obvious that
the straight-line grid
of small town AMERICA is a thoroughly de-
humanized #DESIGN Follow #NATURE!

#biomimicry
September 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Cliff Crego
🌡️ As the atmosphere’s “thirst” rises exponentially with warming, so does the risk of drought.

Each bit of added warming increases the potential for droughts to grow longer, larger, and more severe.

It slows the ability to recover, which in turn worsens the wildfire risk
🧵/4
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🎵 #poetry & #music THE BELL, eight poems in a soundscape vimeo.com/844752724?fl...

“The point at the center of the cross,
where wet and cold meets warm and dry,
and rivers and cultures divides…”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #ALPS #musicsky #Gedicht #Switzerland #musicsky #foto #photography
THE BELL, eight poems in a soundscape
Eight simple, single-image, high-country poems in a 3-d hand-played e-percussion landscape... THE BELL The point at the center of a cross, where wet and cold meets…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Cliff Crego
“No more climate change worship... We are done with that shit.”
Hegseth announces he's going to ignore 40+ years of US defense and intelligence assessments on the real threat of #climatechange for international security and military operations and bases.

Look here.
www.gleick.com/blog/climate...
Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Security: An Annotated History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Security Assessments (Part 1: to 2010)
Summary: For more than half a century, U.S. intelligence and defense communities have worked to understand the threats to national and international security from a range of enviro
www.gleick.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky
THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…
This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎵 TIMES TWELVE, #music & #poetry side by side “SUNSIGHT!” mp3 [53Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/times-tw...

(1) SUNSIGHT! for #BuckyFULLER
(2) LOVE SONG
(3) Unholy Land
(4) THE BELL
…(6) LOSS OF TRUTH w/ DESERTS / #VARESE
… (12) ORACLE “It took the whole world by surprise”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

In 12 minutes or less, explore the key concepts of climate science in the most recent work of the best scientists. Upbeat, powered by #GEMINI #AI

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #OREGON #WALLOWAS #climatesky
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN reports
In 12 minutes or less, explore the key concepts of climate science in the most recent work of the best scientists. Upbeat, powered by GEMINI AI, with special emphasis on the glacier melt in the ALPS,
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September 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports, 500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

mp3 [120Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/500x_alb...

Text pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-amp...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #climatesky #OREGON #ALPS #WALLOWAS #AI #gemini
September 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#trekking Dirtbag Billionaire - Ralph Nader Radio Hour www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/dirtbag-bi...

Ralph interviews New York Times reporter, David Gelles, about his new book, “Dirtbag Billionaire: How #YvonChouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away.”

#ethics #AI #backpacking 🥾
Dirtbag Billionaire
Ralph interviews New York Times reporter, David Gelles, about his new book, “Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away.” Then, we welcome back forme...
www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🎶 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for #BuckyFULLER vimeo.com/840482816

TAKES you on an 8’ walkabout in
the #Whitebarkpine country of the
#EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS
#OREGON

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking 🥾 #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #musicsky
SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem
🎵 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT! A soundpoem https://vimeo.com/840482816 Sunrise. No! Sunsight. Yes! Fuller was right. Each morning the Earth turns to greet the Sun We…
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September 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#trekking Krag Peak Basin 2400m Fall Equinox aspect #EagleCapWilderness

This #foto is a 6-day #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️
to #PORTLAND The totally bogus
projected #TRUMP reality will have
us believe #PDX is a war zone?
How does Gov. Tina KOTEK put up
w/ such mafia-style bullying?
In #OREGON we‘re better than that!
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
An excellent report by Dave MILLER & OPB: Pacific Northwest National Lab scientist and Hanford manager on radioactive tank waste, vitrification and clean-up progress - Think Out Loud play.cdnstream1.com/s/opb/think-...

#HANFORD #nuclear 😱 #OREGON #WASHINGTON
Pacific Northwest National Lab scientist and Hanford manager on radioactive tank waste, vitrification and clean-up progress - Think Out Loud
play.cdnstream1.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#musicsky 🎵TIMES EIGHT:— #music & #poetry, side by side “BLATTEN, A Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS” by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

MUSIC? The one thing humans do
that makes the rest of NATURE jealous.

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #wilderness #climateBREAKDOWN #WALLOWAS #OREGON 🌲
TIMES EIGHT:—music & poetry, side by side “BLATTEN, A Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS”
1) FOUR ROMANCES & MYSTERY FLOWER (2) RILKE “I am home between dream and day” (3) POD with Simone de HAAN, trombone (4) VARÈSE: Integrales (fragment) (5) BLATTEN: A Tragedy in the Swiss Alps (6) EVERY
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September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#ClimateBREAKDOWN RMBL, Gothic COLORADO, at 2800m, the highest biological research lab in North America soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

READ full report “A Sentinel of Change: The Enduring Work of RMBL”

pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/rmbl.pdf

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #climatesky #Klimakrise #phenology #AI
RMBL, Gothic COLORADO, at 2800m, the highest biological research lab in North America
Read the full CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Report “A Sentinel of Change: The Enduring Work of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory” [generated w/ GEMINI AI] pdf http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/rmbl.pdf
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September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#science #spirituality Science and Spirit: A Talk Given by David Bohm (1992) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI97...

How can a coherent #CULTURE
come about?

#nonviolence #dialogue #DavidBOHM
Science and Spirit (Full Version): A Talk Given by David Bohm
YouTube video by David Bohm Society
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September 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
#trekking Eagle Cap north face, from MIRROR LAKE at 2300m, #Whitebarkpine Country

Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ at 1700m 2 Pan Trailhead
LOSTINE VALLEY. Spectacular run up
South to Eagle Cap 2900m. Snow
Sunday down to 2000m, but will
melt off once clear

#foto #bikepacking #backpacking 🌲
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#Climatesky Minnesota's firefly population at risk due to climate change, scientists say | MPR News, w/ Paul HUTTNER www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

#ClimateBREAKDOWN
Lights out for fireflies? Climate change, pesticides and light pollution threaten lightning bug population
MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner talked with journalist Eric Berger about the declining population rate for fireflies across the country.
www.mprnews.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#NativeAMERICAN 'Told in the Hills (1919)’ restored www.lmtribune.com/inland-360/s...

Filmed in Kamiah, on the spectacular Clearwater
River, IDAHO w/ some 100 Nimiipoo /
NEZ PERCE tribal members.
Original score by Diné composer
Connor Chee to be performed live!

#MOSCOW #IDAHO #musicsky
Idaho’s first feature film 'Told in the Hills' restored, set to premie...
Historic film premieres in restored format at Kenworthy’s Silent Film Festival in Moscow
www.lmtribune.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM