Trees don’t always need much water. Here’s an apple tree that is doing very fine, thank you very much, without irrigation:

Apple Tree Standing Like a Horse in a Field

Coldstream Ranch

Here’s a pine that simply shrugs the idea of water off …

Pine up High on Noble Canyon Ridge

This limestone conglomerate is perfect for cave formations, but no one has found one yet. Maybe this pine has.

Here’s one of that pine’s cousins, just along the ridgeline …

Pine in a Crack

Clever, huh! To heck with drip irrigation systems. This pine shows that we can plant anywhere that water gathers, no matter how briefly. This pine is the vertical expression of water that really wanted to flow downhill. It bloomed instead.

And that’s the secret of this planet. It is surrounded by oxygen that should not be here but is because plants reverse the natural processes of energy loss. Planet-wide, it means that the atmosphere is dynamic, and not stable. Up close and personal, it means that plants make water flow uphill. Here’s the human method of trying to duplicate that:

Irrigation Pump, Keremeos

A blue water system for making water flow uphill. It taps into the vast river flowing through the deep post-glacial gravels of the Similkameen. Notice the green water pumps on the backside of Daly Mountain, above Siberian Flats, in the background.

Trees are showing us a way of moving the rain and the sun through space and time. One with no monthly bill.