A week of stories about lions wouldn't be complete without a visit with Aslan, the powerful benevolent protector of Narnia. The close up of Aslan (lower right) is one of my most popular photographs. The full view of this root structure (directly below) is itself...
Honoring Animals

Are Sea Anemones Plants or Animals?
Is a sea anemone a plant or an animal? In a world where we are puzzling the many different life forms that co-exist, and are learning to respect each for their inherent value and contribution to our complex universe - the University of Vienna has sided with the...

Butterfly Time
It's prime butterfly time! My favorite is the Monarch - it does well here in the Heartland, where its favorite food - milkweed - grows in profusion in natural prairie habitats. Another favorite is the White Peacock Butterfly. ...

Condor, Puma and Snake | Rock Symbols in the Chiricahua Mountains
These rock beings live in the Chiricahua Mountains of Southern Arizona. They are in a peaceful area known as a sky island – an isolated prominence in the middle of a flat desert. Cochise Head can be seen in the distance, dominating the landscape. This area is the...

Cougar, Specter & Magpies | Duality of Time
This is a nature being art piece that looks different from different angles. From one vantage point (right) the sculpture looks like a cougar searching for prey and about to pounce. From another (left) he looks like an old, bedraggled cougar with death fast...

Deer At Rest Among Friends | Rocky Mountain National Park
I was visiting with some rock friends on a trip to Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. I enjoy, after photographing and conversing with them, heading around to the back of the formation and meditating in a wonderful energizing shallow cave. It is very peaceful...

Desert Peace for a Watchful Lion
This peaceful mountain lion watches over his desert home in Utah. He is the only stone stack for miles around and humans have placed a rest spot at his base, along a country road. I was traveling from Bryce Canyon back to Colorado, enjoying the beautiful, cloudless...

Dog’s Treasure Map
This is a dog's treasure map to the best trails at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve. What a great exploration it is! This map is overseen by its own dog guardian spirit. The map is carved into a tree that crosses one of the grass trails at the Preserve - one favored by...

Elegy for a “Song Bird”
This unusual tree portal features a pointing hand and a guardian spirit. Is the guardian a man or the underside of a bird, showing claws and tail? The tree, now outwardly dead, lives on a preserve that once housed a convent. It is on the edge of a path leading down...

Elephant Strength
Elephant images exist in stones and trees in many places. They are nodal points in a worldwide elephant energy grid. Although earth looks solid, this is the cumulative result of innumerable grids of active energy over-layering each other. Life forms, emotions and...

Hedgehog Cuteness
Nature spirits like cute and cuddly just like humans do. Sometimes I come upon images of gentle animals in trees and rocks. There may be some serious subject depicted elsewhere on the canvas...but there seems to be time for kindness and sweetness as well. To the...

Lion Courage Comes in Many Sizes
There are many energy grids that circle earth and make up its potentials. One of them is the Lion Grid. You will find lion images anchored in trees and rocks around the world. And also anchored in the moving beings - animals, people and nature spirits. These images...