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.
… and has a beautiful off-white fur coat.
Okanagan Okanogan 
Looks like an albino or light-colored bee-fly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombylius_major
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Thanks! Now I have to change my title. 🙂
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It’s a beautiful insect. I would love to see one in person.
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They are fast, yet very focussed on their flying. The two I watched were hard to catch, but they never moved more than a metre or a metre-and-a-half away from an imaginary central point as they sought, it appears, a bee’s burrow. On camera, there’s a yellowish tinge to them, but when they flew, with the sun in them, they were pure white. As you say, a beautiful insect! A lucky find for me.
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