Here’s a trail in the grasslands. Note the old house to the right of the trail. Ya, the round brown hillock. You got it!Here’s who lives there. Weaver ants! Thatch, in the earth, […]
Alien Architecture in the Okanagan
Weeds at Work
Say hi to Queen Anne’s Lace. It is listed as a noxious weed. I mean, try grazing a cow in this pasture. Still, who defines these things? Not the lettuce […]
Native and Settler Apples on the North West Pacific Shore
Welcome to the fuscas! Malus Fusca: Pacific Crab 110% of life size. Here’s a domestic apple, descended from Caucasian stock, for comparison. Liberty (Macoun X Purdue 54-12; Geneva, New York, 1955) 40% […]
The Voice of a Great Cascadian River
Chapman’s Bar: a gravel bar in the Fraser River.As the heat breaks, the rain begins in the ancestral homeland of the grassland peoples. Some rocks never dried out. The spring river made […]
By These Fish We Take Our Measure
From the shore where fresh water mingles with salt …. …and the tide comes in and out and humans erect the stories of themselves they have always lifted into the sky… … […]
Water Flowing Backwards
On the coast of the Salish Sea, the great Cascadian river, the Ouregon, runs backward with the tide — and with more than tides. In the image below you can see a tug pulling what […]
Returning From Nature
Human young returning from an exile in nature. Mountain returning from an exile in nature, too.Boundary Bay, Cascadian Shore
Human Young in a Line
Social training in its natural scale. Summer Kids Activity Group
Beyond Peak Oil
Peak crow. …with humanly-erected artworks of driftwood and seaweed. This is what happens when we turn our backs. Now, the view from the other side: Peak Oil Government-Installed Blue Plastic River on […]
Waiting for the Humans to Finish
Lunch time in Boundary Bay, on the coast of Cascadia.
Okanagan Okanogan 