The fifth and final poem in the suite, know it was for you, was written by Dennis Cooley, originally of Estevan, Saskatchewan, but now teaching English at St. John's College, University of Manitoba. It was during the reading and re-reading of the five poems that we realized that they all had some relationship with water, hence the name of the suite.

Each of the plates required numerous printed proofs in the process, first to establish the imagery, then to develop the colour for each print and for the suite as a whole. It was during a visit to the interior of British Columbia at Thanksgiving in 2004 that I had the experience of observing (and photographing) the Adams River sockeye salmon run, a phenomenon in which over 2 million salmon return to the small Adams River location, where they had hatched four years earlier, in order to spawn. The developed photos of the bright red fish swimming upstream, or drifting pale and dead downstream, combined with the rich colours of the autumn landscape, were exactly what we'd been searching for in terms of a palette for the prints. Some of the prints required as few as five or six colours; others involved more than fifteen. The inks were applied a la poupee, and the editions were printed on Hannemulhe German Etching Paper, using my 19th Century Ledeuil a Paris etching press.