Author: Emily Carr

Wild Geese

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

I was visiting in Cariboo. A flock of wild geese in migration descended to feed in a grain field. Driving with two gun-lovers, I happened to pass that way, and we came upon the flock feeding. The roadway ran right alongside the field in which the wild geese…

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Eagles of Skeena River

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

Poised each on his own still pine-tree top, majestically silent in the peaceful overhang of Skeena’s turbulent waters, sat Skeena’s royal eagles. Looking up, looking down the river’s noble sweep, my eye counted thirty of the kingly birds, each independently throned on his pine tree, each wearing…

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Height

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

Vestovius is a high mountain in Alaska; it is not far from Sitka. A man invited my sister and me to climb Vestovius with him. From Sitka we went to the base of the mountain in a launch, then we climbed, at first through dense, snarled woods and…

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