Sagebrush. It loves the heat and it looks so grey, right. It loves the cold and it looks so grey, so very grey. But it has a secret. It’s really saturated with […]
Earth and Her Two Suns
Illusions of Water Create Realities of Drought
Volcanic landscape, right? Wrong. It’s made by water. Neskonlith Falls Below is the old periglacial lake bottom of Glacial Lake Kamloops. That flat land is the bottom of the lake. The train […]
Green Fire
Cheatgrass burns off a whole season’s water at once … in early March. By May, this will be a desert, and this fire will be red. This sagebrush-cheatgrass culture takes the place […]
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
The Secrets of Dawn
The blue of the sky divides into darkness and light. Then the sky separates. The light falls, then rises again from the Earth. There are glimpses to the world within the clouds […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
The Bones of Our Mother
This is our mother. These are the bones of our mother, with the glacial outwash gravel that cut them from her body above. These are some of our mother’s bones weathering in the […]
Spirit Rock
This rock is about 4 metres tall. It is worth a lifetime of reading. Amazing!
Earth and Story
I know the land. I’ve known it for a long time. I know the stories. I’ve known them for a long time. Stories of Coyote, for example, that howler..Such knowledge is useless […]
The Earth Has Beautiful Skin
Or at least it should. A few days ago, I showed you what the practice of grazing cattle on grassland slopes has done to the earth. Here’s an image of a destroyed […]
Okanagan Okanogan 