What passes for environmentally sound practices today are deep reflections of an economic system, but they’re not green, and they’re not going to ensure either the survival of the earth or of […]
True Green and False Economy
Rebuilding Vineyard Culture Rock by Rock
The world is opening after the months of lying hidden inside buds and roots. Here in the Okanagan, this is what the grapes are looking like this week… However, there are […]
It is So Good to be Home
I now have two homes on this earth. Just look at them both in this spring full of light. First, my home in the middle of the North Atlantic … Spring […]
Home
You can travel halfway around the world to find yourself at home, and just as you leave you find old friends, who have travelled halfway around the world to be home. […]
Realism, Folktale or Magic Realism
It’s your choice. They’re all fantasies. So, which will the future of the Okanagan be? I know these aren’t pictures from the West beyond the West, but the distance might make things […]
A British Columbian Gardener in Iceland? Must Be!
Oh-oh, looks like Canadian folk culture garden design has hit Iceland. That can only mean trouble, with a capital Rouble. Take a look here on Noatun in Reykjavik… See That? An […]
The Sun Rises in Reykjavik
This is Reykjavik. I’ve left the farm, but Tra la la, down through the heart I go. The Heart’s Way Apartment staircase in Reykjavik … and peek out through the heart’s window […]
Respect and Honour
Glacial water, treeless mountains, hardy birches on the shore … 10,000 years ago the Okanagan looked like this. Hallormstaður, Iceland Notice the lack of waterfront houses. That was done out of respect. […]
What a Living Earth Does
It breathes. Hengifoss Waterfall Shaking off Its Ice … … and taking a deep breath. The old words are best. In fact, today the Highlands were being scoured clean of old snow. […]
Slow Photography, Light Lithography, and Silence
Take a look at the photograph of the sun the lichen on this Icelandic rock took over many years.The sun doesn’t have to be bright to shine. Today the sky was an […]
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