Every Western church has a window much like this …

Christ Risen

Reykholt Church Altar, Iceland

Not many churches have this for a view while you’re sitting in the pews …

Church Window, Reykholt, Iceland

The other cross.

Imagine if a people had cut down all their trees to stay warm in the cold, until the poets came along and started planting trees again, until memory was a live and growing year by year, and you could walk through it. Imagine a people who found their liberty in this way, rather than by war or revolution: by planting trees. Well, it’s the kind of country that might build a road like this…

If You’re Going to Go Through All the Trouble of Building a Road …

… you might has well have it lead somewhere.

Putting towns at the ends of roads is so expensive. In the Okanagan and the Okanogan, these are lessons that have not yet been learned: plant a tree; build a road that leads to it.