Kevin
@ecosystemssustain.bsky.social
I live in the woods - enjoy traveling, books (reading, not banning), and recreating in nature. I won't provide breaking news, and I may not post that often, but I will always be positive.
Every City should have a park like Portland's Tabor Park. The park is located on an old cinder cone in SE Portland. The park has many trails leading up to the peak of the cinder cone and they all pass through amazing large trees like the ones show below. Perfect for a necessary infusion of nature.
May 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Every City should have a park like Portland's Tabor Park. The park is located on an old cinder cone in SE Portland. The park has many trails leading up to the peak of the cinder cone and they all pass through amazing large trees like the ones show below. Perfect for a necessary infusion of nature.
My big city escapade has been productive, but in the last two days I have filled my annual quota of human interaction. Accordingly, I ducked out early today to explore. This photo is of downtown Portland with the west hills in the background. Taken from the top of Mt Tabor (an amazing urban park).
May 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My big city escapade has been productive, but in the last two days I have filled my annual quota of human interaction. Accordingly, I ducked out early today to explore. This photo is of downtown Portland with the west hills in the background. Taken from the top of Mt Tabor (an amazing urban park).
Looking forward to a week in Portland, OR discussing sustainability at the International Living Futures Conference. Hoping to get some urban nature photos while here. Got an early start on the flight.
Photo: picked the right side of the plane to get a fantastic view of Mt Hood flying into PDX.
Photo: picked the right side of the plane to get a fantastic view of Mt Hood flying into PDX.
May 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Looking forward to a week in Portland, OR discussing sustainability at the International Living Futures Conference. Hoping to get some urban nature photos while here. Got an early start on the flight.
Photo: picked the right side of the plane to get a fantastic view of Mt Hood flying into PDX.
Photo: picked the right side of the plane to get a fantastic view of Mt Hood flying into PDX.
Reflections of clouds
As above, so below
Like a sky in shrouds
Swirling to and fro
Nature’s mirror shows
A storm-ridden sky
Where sadness grows
And the heavens cry
Photo: The reflection from our pond on a stormy evening . . . and no, I did not make it home before the rain started.
As above, so below
Like a sky in shrouds
Swirling to and fro
Nature’s mirror shows
A storm-ridden sky
Where sadness grows
And the heavens cry
Photo: The reflection from our pond on a stormy evening . . . and no, I did not make it home before the rain started.
April 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reflections of clouds
As above, so below
Like a sky in shrouds
Swirling to and fro
Nature’s mirror shows
A storm-ridden sky
Where sadness grows
And the heavens cry
Photo: The reflection from our pond on a stormy evening . . . and no, I did not make it home before the rain started.
As above, so below
Like a sky in shrouds
Swirling to and fro
Nature’s mirror shows
A storm-ridden sky
Where sadness grows
And the heavens cry
Photo: The reflection from our pond on a stormy evening . . . and no, I did not make it home before the rain started.
So when you look into the sun
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
We can still make summer
Yes, summer always comes anyway
- from Look into the Sun by Jethro Tull
Photo: Inexorable progress towards summer - the budding larch and delicate mosses springing to life.
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
We can still make summer
Yes, summer always comes anyway
- from Look into the Sun by Jethro Tull
Photo: Inexorable progress towards summer - the budding larch and delicate mosses springing to life.
April 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
So when you look into the sun
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
We can still make summer
Yes, summer always comes anyway
- from Look into the Sun by Jethro Tull
Photo: Inexorable progress towards summer - the budding larch and delicate mosses springing to life.
And see the words you could have sung
It's not too late, only begun
We can still make summer
Yes, summer always comes anyway
- from Look into the Sun by Jethro Tull
Photo: Inexorable progress towards summer - the budding larch and delicate mosses springing to life.
Sunrise signals a shifting tide
Hope and the promise of light
Where empathy and joy abide
and kindness can shine bright
Today’s sunrise made me think of dawn burning away the evil suffusing this troubled land. That, or it is just Gaia refusing to be upstaged by a tin-pot dictator. Either way . . .
Hope and the promise of light
Where empathy and joy abide
and kindness can shine bright
Today’s sunrise made me think of dawn burning away the evil suffusing this troubled land. That, or it is just Gaia refusing to be upstaged by a tin-pot dictator. Either way . . .
April 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Sunrise signals a shifting tide
Hope and the promise of light
Where empathy and joy abide
and kindness can shine bright
Today’s sunrise made me think of dawn burning away the evil suffusing this troubled land. That, or it is just Gaia refusing to be upstaged by a tin-pot dictator. Either way . . .
Hope and the promise of light
Where empathy and joy abide
and kindness can shine bright
Today’s sunrise made me think of dawn burning away the evil suffusing this troubled land. That, or it is just Gaia refusing to be upstaged by a tin-pot dictator. Either way . . .
Nature seeks diversity
Diversity provides nature with resilience
Diversity ensures nature’s integrated systems have the necessary functionality
Public lands belong to all the public equally . . . and all are welcome.
Photo – a DEI forest and mountains in Montana.
Diversity provides nature with resilience
Diversity ensures nature’s integrated systems have the necessary functionality
Public lands belong to all the public equally . . . and all are welcome.
Photo – a DEI forest and mountains in Montana.
April 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Nature seeks diversity
Diversity provides nature with resilience
Diversity ensures nature’s integrated systems have the necessary functionality
Public lands belong to all the public equally . . . and all are welcome.
Photo – a DEI forest and mountains in Montana.
Diversity provides nature with resilience
Diversity ensures nature’s integrated systems have the necessary functionality
Public lands belong to all the public equally . . . and all are welcome.
Photo – a DEI forest and mountains in Montana.
In the shadows of the night
Waiting for the morning light
I'll reach out and touch you—
Gently waking—
Our love is a sleeping sea
Like the river, run to me—
When you come we'll greet the dawn
Together
- Sunrise by Hoyt Axton
More love, more sunrises . . . perhaps fewer narcissists and evil thugs.
Waiting for the morning light
I'll reach out and touch you—
Gently waking—
Our love is a sleeping sea
Like the river, run to me—
When you come we'll greet the dawn
Together
- Sunrise by Hoyt Axton
More love, more sunrises . . . perhaps fewer narcissists and evil thugs.
April 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the shadows of the night
Waiting for the morning light
I'll reach out and touch you—
Gently waking—
Our love is a sleeping sea
Like the river, run to me—
When you come we'll greet the dawn
Together
- Sunrise by Hoyt Axton
More love, more sunrises . . . perhaps fewer narcissists and evil thugs.
Waiting for the morning light
I'll reach out and touch you—
Gently waking—
Our love is a sleeping sea
Like the river, run to me—
When you come we'll greet the dawn
Together
- Sunrise by Hoyt Axton
More love, more sunrises . . . perhaps fewer narcissists and evil thugs.
Blue opal pool
Serene, resplendent
Reaching out – touches me gently
I feel no moisture, but my soul’s thirst sated . . . for now
Photo of pond ostensibly for our emergency wildfire defense, but which does so much more day-to-day . . . such as providing a place for quiet contemplation.
Serene, resplendent
Reaching out – touches me gently
I feel no moisture, but my soul’s thirst sated . . . for now
Photo of pond ostensibly for our emergency wildfire defense, but which does so much more day-to-day . . . such as providing a place for quiet contemplation.
April 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Blue opal pool
Serene, resplendent
Reaching out – touches me gently
I feel no moisture, but my soul’s thirst sated . . . for now
Photo of pond ostensibly for our emergency wildfire defense, but which does so much more day-to-day . . . such as providing a place for quiet contemplation.
Serene, resplendent
Reaching out – touches me gently
I feel no moisture, but my soul’s thirst sated . . . for now
Photo of pond ostensibly for our emergency wildfire defense, but which does so much more day-to-day . . . such as providing a place for quiet contemplation.
Little pebble upon the sand
Now, you're lying here in my hand
How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand
From where I'm lying here in your hand
You to me are but a passing breeze
From Happiness Runs by Donovan
Nature will survive humans, but we may cause it pain in our passing.
Now, you're lying here in my hand
How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand
From where I'm lying here in your hand
You to me are but a passing breeze
From Happiness Runs by Donovan
Nature will survive humans, but we may cause it pain in our passing.
April 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Little pebble upon the sand
Now, you're lying here in my hand
How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand
From where I'm lying here in your hand
You to me are but a passing breeze
From Happiness Runs by Donovan
Nature will survive humans, but we may cause it pain in our passing.
Now, you're lying here in my hand
How many years have you been here?
Little human upon the sand
From where I'm lying here in your hand
You to me are but a passing breeze
From Happiness Runs by Donovan
Nature will survive humans, but we may cause it pain in our passing.
For all joining the day of protest tomorrow - let us hope it portends the dawn of a new day. For any in Kalispell for the event, I hope to see you there!
Nature will sustain us if we let it - even in the face of the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Take a moment to smile at the flowers.
Nature will sustain us if we let it - even in the face of the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Take a moment to smile at the flowers.
April 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For all joining the day of protest tomorrow - let us hope it portends the dawn of a new day. For any in Kalispell for the event, I hope to see you there!
Nature will sustain us if we let it - even in the face of the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Take a moment to smile at the flowers.
Nature will sustain us if we let it - even in the face of the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Take a moment to smile at the flowers.
We've had a number of recent visitors - lynx, mountain lion, pine marten, and today this fine fox. As we restored the property we left patches of downfall and denser regrowth to provide snowshoe hare habitat. This creates a fine hunting ground for these predators. I appreciated the stately pose.
April 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We've had a number of recent visitors - lynx, mountain lion, pine marten, and today this fine fox. As we restored the property we left patches of downfall and denser regrowth to provide snowshoe hare habitat. This creates a fine hunting ground for these predators. I appreciated the stately pose.
Mine's a tale that can't be told
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
From Ramble on by Led Zeppelin
These lyrics popped into my head yesterday, and it made me think of watching the northern lights - when magic's manifestation fills the air. From May 2024.
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
From Ramble on by Led Zeppelin
These lyrics popped into my head yesterday, and it made me think of watching the northern lights - when magic's manifestation fills the air. From May 2024.
April 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mine's a tale that can't be told
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
From Ramble on by Led Zeppelin
These lyrics popped into my head yesterday, and it made me think of watching the northern lights - when magic's manifestation fills the air. From May 2024.
My freedom I hold dear
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air
From Ramble on by Led Zeppelin
These lyrics popped into my head yesterday, and it made me think of watching the northern lights - when magic's manifestation fills the air. From May 2024.
With Gaia's grace
Seasons maintained
So life is sustained
And hope retained
With Gaia's grace
The trees stand tall
The leaves in the fall
Imagination enthrall
With Gaia's grace
Much of our society (present company excluded) are disconnected from nature. However, nature sustains us.
Seasons maintained
So life is sustained
And hope retained
With Gaia's grace
The trees stand tall
The leaves in the fall
Imagination enthrall
With Gaia's grace
Much of our society (present company excluded) are disconnected from nature. However, nature sustains us.
April 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
With Gaia's grace
Seasons maintained
So life is sustained
And hope retained
With Gaia's grace
The trees stand tall
The leaves in the fall
Imagination enthrall
With Gaia's grace
Much of our society (present company excluded) are disconnected from nature. However, nature sustains us.
Seasons maintained
So life is sustained
And hope retained
With Gaia's grace
The trees stand tall
The leaves in the fall
Imagination enthrall
With Gaia's grace
Much of our society (present company excluded) are disconnected from nature. However, nature sustains us.
Life survives
No, it thrives
Despite cold
In tundra old
Forbs bloom
If given room
I am always amazed at life's ability to thrive in the most unexpected and seemingly inhospitable places. This photo was taken in a Norwegian tundra with thin soils and harsh condition, yet it teemed with life.
No, it thrives
Despite cold
In tundra old
Forbs bloom
If given room
I am always amazed at life's ability to thrive in the most unexpected and seemingly inhospitable places. This photo was taken in a Norwegian tundra with thin soils and harsh condition, yet it teemed with life.
April 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Life survives
No, it thrives
Despite cold
In tundra old
Forbs bloom
If given room
I am always amazed at life's ability to thrive in the most unexpected and seemingly inhospitable places. This photo was taken in a Norwegian tundra with thin soils and harsh condition, yet it teemed with life.
No, it thrives
Despite cold
In tundra old
Forbs bloom
If given room
I am always amazed at life's ability to thrive in the most unexpected and seemingly inhospitable places. This photo was taken in a Norwegian tundra with thin soils and harsh condition, yet it teemed with life.
Oh, sunshine, take me now away from here
I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove
And the turntable spins, as the last waltz begins
And the weather man says, something's on the move
Somethings on the Move by Jethro Tull
I love the energy before a storm. Something was on the move this day in Norway.
I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove
And the turntable spins, as the last waltz begins
And the weather man says, something's on the move
Somethings on the Move by Jethro Tull
I love the energy before a storm. Something was on the move this day in Norway.
March 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh, sunshine, take me now away from here
I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove
And the turntable spins, as the last waltz begins
And the weather man says, something's on the move
Somethings on the Move by Jethro Tull
I love the energy before a storm. Something was on the move this day in Norway.
I'm a needle on a spiral in a groove
And the turntable spins, as the last waltz begins
And the weather man says, something's on the move
Somethings on the Move by Jethro Tull
I love the energy before a storm. Something was on the move this day in Norway.
When rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind
For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be, and I long to be
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind
- from Catch the Wind by Donovan
Photo from the Lyngen Alps in Norway
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind
For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be, and I long to be
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind
- from Catch the Wind by Donovan
Photo from the Lyngen Alps in Norway
March 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind
For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be, and I long to be
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind
- from Catch the Wind by Donovan
Photo from the Lyngen Alps in Norway
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind
For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be, and I long to be
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind
- from Catch the Wind by Donovan
Photo from the Lyngen Alps in Norway
Photo from yesterday's walk. The peaks in the background are the boundary between Glacier and Waterton Parks. The water in the foreground is a beaver pond built where several springs pop up creating a year-round cold water pond. This is a good place to see moose and beavers.
March 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Photo from yesterday's walk. The peaks in the background are the boundary between Glacier and Waterton Parks. The water in the foreground is a beaver pond built where several springs pop up creating a year-round cold water pond. This is a good place to see moose and beavers.
Good morning! A photo of today's sunrise to start the day.
The past week has been quite hectic, and keeping up with the awesome content being posted has been difficult. I love the photos, poetry, and commentary being posted, but you guys are just so prolific. I will enjoy it all - eventually.
The past week has been quite hectic, and keeping up with the awesome content being posted has been difficult. I love the photos, poetry, and commentary being posted, but you guys are just so prolific. I will enjoy it all - eventually.
March 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Good morning! A photo of today's sunrise to start the day.
The past week has been quite hectic, and keeping up with the awesome content being posted has been difficult. I love the photos, poetry, and commentary being posted, but you guys are just so prolific. I will enjoy it all - eventually.
The past week has been quite hectic, and keeping up with the awesome content being posted has been difficult. I love the photos, poetry, and commentary being posted, but you guys are just so prolific. I will enjoy it all - eventually.
Do you simply reflect changes in the patterns of the sky?
Or is it true to say the weather heeds, the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter? Do you hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?
- from Weather Cock by Jethro Tull
Or is it true to say the weather heeds, the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter? Do you hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?
- from Weather Cock by Jethro Tull
March 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Do you simply reflect changes in the patterns of the sky?
Or is it true to say the weather heeds, the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter? Do you hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?
- from Weather Cock by Jethro Tull
Or is it true to say the weather heeds, the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter? Do you hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?
- from Weather Cock by Jethro Tull
Some say you can learn a lot from books
Thrill right to second-hand living
Life is just as deadly as it looks
But fiction is more forgiving
- from Sibella by Richard Thompson
The lessons are not as indelibly imprinted on your psyche, but then neither are the scars . . . so be smart - read books.
Thrill right to second-hand living
Life is just as deadly as it looks
But fiction is more forgiving
- from Sibella by Richard Thompson
The lessons are not as indelibly imprinted on your psyche, but then neither are the scars . . . so be smart - read books.
March 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some say you can learn a lot from books
Thrill right to second-hand living
Life is just as deadly as it looks
But fiction is more forgiving
- from Sibella by Richard Thompson
The lessons are not as indelibly imprinted on your psyche, but then neither are the scars . . . so be smart - read books.
Thrill right to second-hand living
Life is just as deadly as it looks
But fiction is more forgiving
- from Sibella by Richard Thompson
The lessons are not as indelibly imprinted on your psyche, but then neither are the scars . . . so be smart - read books.
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come
Since I first left home
- from Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Photo of waterfall just north of Sunndalsora, Norway.
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come
Since I first left home
- from Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Photo of waterfall just north of Sunndalsora, Norway.
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come
Since I first left home
- from Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Photo of waterfall just north of Sunndalsora, Norway.
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come
Since I first left home
- from Brokedown Palace by the Grateful Dead
Photo of waterfall just north of Sunndalsora, Norway.
You know you've been dreaming
I've been dreaming, too
Nothing wrong with dreaming
Sometimes they come true
from Life Machine by Hoyt Axton
Photo is from Lofoton, Norway. I have been dreaming of spending time wandering around Lofoton (nothing wrong with that), and sometimes dreams do come true.
I've been dreaming, too
Nothing wrong with dreaming
Sometimes they come true
from Life Machine by Hoyt Axton
Photo is from Lofoton, Norway. I have been dreaming of spending time wandering around Lofoton (nothing wrong with that), and sometimes dreams do come true.
March 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You know you've been dreaming
I've been dreaming, too
Nothing wrong with dreaming
Sometimes they come true
from Life Machine by Hoyt Axton
Photo is from Lofoton, Norway. I have been dreaming of spending time wandering around Lofoton (nothing wrong with that), and sometimes dreams do come true.
I've been dreaming, too
Nothing wrong with dreaming
Sometimes they come true
from Life Machine by Hoyt Axton
Photo is from Lofoton, Norway. I have been dreaming of spending time wandering around Lofoton (nothing wrong with that), and sometimes dreams do come true.
There’s a river that runs between the sun
And the darkness of our lives
You can hit the road or stay in bed
You can sink or swim or fight
But when all of this is said and done
You gonna walk so gently still into that night
From Across the River by Blitzen Trapper
Photo: Marble Castle in Norway
And the darkness of our lives
You can hit the road or stay in bed
You can sink or swim or fight
But when all of this is said and done
You gonna walk so gently still into that night
From Across the River by Blitzen Trapper
Photo: Marble Castle in Norway
March 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There’s a river that runs between the sun
And the darkness of our lives
You can hit the road or stay in bed
You can sink or swim or fight
But when all of this is said and done
You gonna walk so gently still into that night
From Across the River by Blitzen Trapper
Photo: Marble Castle in Norway
And the darkness of our lives
You can hit the road or stay in bed
You can sink or swim or fight
But when all of this is said and done
You gonna walk so gently still into that night
From Across the River by Blitzen Trapper
Photo: Marble Castle in Norway