Fall in Nelson

Still life in retreat… still life refers to the composition not my life ;-)

Stellar's Jay

First Aid Class

cold nights

Hippie Plant

Roots

Rope sky

Origami

Japanese women at the market made these for everyone.

interior

delicate

!!

Dancing in the street

They all just learned the dance.

a stoic and a kid in the rain

The road became like a river after a while. Too bad the canoe didn't have paddles.

So funny I had to take a picture… [from the Vancouver Province]

Galena to Shelter Ferry [sorry about the hand!]

This ferry ride was a little of a car wash. Unusually rough [and refreshing] conditions for an inland ferry.

embers

Car camping on the way to Revelstoke

A platter full of tsa tsas

Yarrow, or is it Tansy?

Cottonwood Falls Park, Saturday afternoon - pot smoke, hula hoops, and drumming

parking lot

Tim & Sally's field

Technophile I am.

And so is my friend Tom who gave it to me.

Fisherman's Picnic Table?

Summertime and the living is easy…

Floating down the Slocan River…

Perhaps in the sock drawer?

Girl & baby - Bodhgaya

McKinley

A photo from thirteen years ago when in the foot"hills" of Mt. McKinley. That's my brother John.

A personality revealing question…

Is this glass 100% empty or 0% full?

The things that fascinate you when you're meditating all day…

Bloomin' Fireweed [say with British accent]

Tibetan-style monks meditating

Some of them may be Nepalese or Indian…

Used ford for sale

Red-breasted Nuthatch

In meditation retreat

Lost

My nephew Koji at 1 year, 1 day

A glimpse of the Rockies

Not too long ago…

-40°C

The Bodhisattva of Compassion

This statue is at the Bodhgaya stupa. Outside the small temple are perhaps twenty monks all meditating and reciting 'om mani padme hum". Very nice atmosphere!

Bodhgaya Market

Green Tara

Here is a picture of the Green Tara image built into the Bodhgaya stupa. It is said to have great blessing power.

My new gau

A gau is kind of a portable Tibetan-style shrine. I bought it in Bodhgaya, India the main Buddhist pilgrimage place. The Buddha inside it was bought in L.A. at the same time that I took monks vows in 1988 and was blessed by Kalu Rinpoche.

Another opportunity to give

No lights!

Judging by the color and style of robes I would say this is a fully-ordained Thai Buddhist Monk. Let me know if I'm wrong!

Asking- Bodhgaya, India

I gave her a hearty chunk of bread and she was very pleased.

dharma food

Tibetan-style bread baked with the imprint of an endless knot.

Break time

That's pollution not snow

Another mode of transport.

Reading the Kangyur [words of the Buddha]

The Kangyur is a collection of books that can only be read in a day if the job is shared by many people. So, each of the monks has a few pages that they read in unison. It gets done in about half an hour this way.