Ebook: Sky time in Gray's River: living for keeps in a forgotten place

Beforetimes : going to ground in Gray's River -- The time of mew gulls -- Frogsong -- When the echo azures fly -- The time of trilliums -- Arrivals -- Swallowtails and Swainson's -- Days of mist and thistles -- The time of hay and berries -- Departures -- Chinooks and chanterelles -- Tree time -- The time of rising water -- Aftertimes : throwing the cat on the compost.;An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River.