Spring is here, friends, and it looks like this. That’s some mighty fine fog rolling over from the “Head of the Lake Indian Reserve”, isn’t it. That falling action, though, that’s part of […]
Spring Has Sprung In the Okanagan
Talking With the Trees
Here’s a dolmen in North Wales. Note the tree. The dolmen is thousands of years older than the tree. It has a lid, to keep out the rain, I guess. Like a […]
The Oriole in the Coal Mine
Trees are boundaries. They are creatures of the air, but are anchored to the soil. Most birds are like that, too. Many put their nests up in the sky, supported by trees. They even […]
The Exquisite Beauty of Gravity
There is a tension …. … between what rises … …and what finds the core. Sometime’s it’s weightless. Sometimes it rises. Sometimes it falls. Sometimes it balances. But […]
Canada Geese Making Art
Geese eating rotten apples.Geese making art. The Dance of the Geese. Mass choreography, with geese. Never underestimate the perspective changing ability of a Canada goose. Here are some geese dancing to Bach. […]
Spider Makes Her Move
It’s good to know that the management is checking in. Only Humans Worry About Snow (Not Enough Legs)
It’s Lovely in the Okanagan When There’s No Sky
What’s not to love?
Choosing to Be Human
“Gravity” is commonly understood as the force, devolved from subatomic bonds extended during the Big Bang, that brings things down. This vineyard hill above my house, for instance. The same force brings […]
E = MC2 and Slavery
E = mc2 is Einstein’s attempt to express the spirit of the universe in numbers. The principle he is getting at looks sort of like this: Snow on Bunchgrass I say “sort of” because […]
Snow and Bunchgrass in the Okanagan, or This Ain’t Mexico
Look how the wind that takes the Okanagan’s water away in the summer creates drifts around the bunchgrass in the shape of its mounds, effectively concentrating the snow where the plants can […]
