An improbable romance between an engineer and an ecologist, as they travel through the northern hemisphere on projects in ecology and forestry. The works include: Through Tearlight, Evening Swifts, Traces, Changing Lightly, Landscape with Horses, Dancing in a Dark Apartment, Two Trees, Deep Kiss, Finger Playing with Space Time Energy and Mass, House of Rain, One Woman, Forgetting You, Heartless, Thistle, 3 Perspectives from an Ancient Forest, Singing, Isle of Joy

A collection of short stories: The World's Greatest Athlete: The first dodecathlon, choosing and running the events in 12 different sports. Planning the first hecathlon. The Stealth Clinic: Adventures in a free drug clinic at a summer beach resort. Money talks, so do drugs and music. Monsters: The progress of two artists from accomplishment into madness and death, with brushes, flute and drum VanderGelt's Decision: A bad night for a fight. Night court in an auto town. And, a bad judgment Finding Cantilena: Failing at love with possibly the right mate, and then committing to possibly the wrong...