Art can be made out of land in many ways. One is to build a highway. These art projects often are a form of politics. Take the highways of Eastern Washington, for […]
The Art of the Palette
Reading a Mountain Farm
Eco-Agriculture is a form of social art that unites the earth and human artfulness. Since, as the poet Goethe showed us yesterday, what you put into an exploration is what you get […]
The Mother of All Plants
Miss your Mom? Here she is, the dear: This is the German Poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Ancestral Plant He was taken with the idea that all plants of the world could be […]
The Lesson of the Ladybirds
Yesterday, I was talking about how my mother’s parents, and my father a generation after them, came to Coyote’s country, expecting to find physical freedom, and found something else again. In their […]
Eco-Agriculture in a Spring Light
A friend in Wales wrote yesterday that he was glad to see from these screens that spring was on its way to the Okanagan. So am I. Almost twenty years ago, when […]
Earth Writing
There is a mountain that turns the Similkameen River to the East as it crosses the Canada-US Border, and pushes it on to meet the Okanagan River at Ellisforde. It is called […]
Fire, Art, and Global Warming
Despite vital talk of global warming and increased carbon levels from burning, one thing remains certain and even more primary: the earth is a world of fire. The oxygen that plants separate […]
A New Garden
I’ve been digging. Wayyyyy back when U.S. President Johnson sent his boys into Cambodia, my school teacher told me that I’d better study hard or I’d wind up spending my life with […]
Fun Fun
So, let’s go to that premium human, salmon and wine habitat, Lake Chelan, for a moment, and see how the people are doing. This, after all, is the lake in which hydrofoil […]
Sacred Waters, Part Two
Many photographs in this series have documented how water flows through dry landscapes, especially as it flows through plants instead of through the soil. There are other times, when it flows through […]
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