Alpine Geometry, Muir ("Crater") Lake , VII.22.08 evening, looking Southeast, [click photo for next . . . ]
Eagle Cap Wilderness . . . | buy this photo |
On the road in the American Northwest.

PLEASE join me in my campaign to bring the conservation of Nature
and the best of classical music together. The sonosphere—the
sea of sounds which surrounds us—deserves as much attention and
care as our water and air!

SOYBEAN PIE! is a fun protest piece for double
children's choir & and hand-held percussion instruments;

let the kids make noise!

The poem is on the back cover . . .

| text of poem | score |

| pdf of score | mp3 performance model |

...Our roots might rot,

Our leaves might rust,

Our flowers might fade,

Our buds might burst,...

WEATHER IN THE WEST

3 months of hot as hell,

3 months of cold as hell,

and 3 months of lord-knows-what

in between.

ALPINE GEOMETRY

Horizontal lines of water,

vertical lines of trees,

everything else fractals

in between.

Broken Bridge Camp,
Eagle Cap Wilderness,
Oregon, X.29.2008

Please visit my picture-poems.com MOUNTAIN WATER
print gallery. Above is a set of about 60 recent images.
(Mouseover controls / lower right for full-scrren mode)

I might just mention here, following the simple ethical principle,
First, do no harm, that I never use cars or trucks or snowmachines.
Instead, I do everything on foot, or bike or ski. I think this in a
direct way affects my work, and deeply affects how I see
the world. So all the photos above were approached
on foot—including all the 'in between spaces,' sometimes
involving journeys of weeks or months.

I would not want to work any other way.