I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.
Okanagan Okanogan 
my world is totally grey today, dense with water, rain hanging on my windows. i’m getting ready for walking my dog, he doesn’t mind the wetness at all.
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This morning, the fog has closed in. I can barely see my apricot tree. Pearls of light are hanging from the branches of the peach tree, peeking out from behind the spruce. Your dog sounds like a good, wise friend.
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Looks like coded message, message for life….
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The black drops and the white drops, one positively charged, one negatively … and no idea which is which. It might be Bach?
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Water drops reflecting tree branches. Bubbles or water drops on window. On each bubble, you see the reflection of a sharp focused tree upside down , in many different sizes and in every single drop.
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