Icy Cold

Attention

Song Sparrow II

Cottonwood Creek

Waiting for the ferry

"just" mallard duck

House Finch and Elderberries [look! he dropped one!]

Kootenay Lake looking south

Hot Springs at night

Wigeon chasing a Coot [bet you've never heard that phrase before]

Bighorn Sheep - Salmo/Creston Pass

Hooded Mergansers

Canada Geese coming in for a landing

Song Sparrow

Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch

Rainy Autumn

Alpine Autumn in the Kootenays

The mean streets of Vancouver

Storm Rolling in - Slocan Lake

Light waves

Lightwaves from s m on Vimeo.

Street Dancing

Market tree

you can see my display at the lower right.

going to seed

Lots of Bugs Lately

Paper Summer Home

Campsite

Unidentified alpine flower

Sunny magenta

Interior

Colourful Bug

The hidden

Sweat Lodge

This fire has a pile of rocks underneath which are then put in a pit in...

...the center of this tent around which 45[!] people sit in complete darkness.

Freshly opened in Nelson

Let's Rock

Double wave

Self-portrait Safeway

Spring Gutter

Garden Market

Wild Ginger Flower

Finding a Way

Coffee Spill

Saruman visits Nelson

Is it asleep or awake?

Sleet?

Barfi Candy makes me feel sick.

My sense of humor hasn't changed much since I was fourteen.

Monks Debating

Monks debating at Tergar monastery, Bodhgaya, India. Pretty competitive!

Monks Debating from s m on Vimeo.

Indian Flower

Sacred Cow… er, bull

Strolling through the market in Bodhgaya, India.

Sacred Cow… er, bull from s m on Vimeo.

From 27° to -10°. Hard on the body!

Kagyu Monlam 2009

Here's where I was for eight days early in January. The "tok, tok" sound means a session is about to begin. The aprons with horizontal lines that you can see on the women at the end of the video means they are married [not to each other].

Kagyu Monlam 2009 from s m on Vimeo.

Begging

Untitled from s m on Vimeo.

Little Monks All in a Row

These little monks have to leave the stupa in single file so that some don't get lost in the crowd.

Untitled from s m on Vimeo.

Street life in India

The ugliest dog i ever did see [lately]

i think it is because he has so little hair.

Elaborate Tibetan-style sculpture

This depicts Milarepa in the middle and two other Tibetan sages below. A Tibetan torma made from butter and flour I believe!