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.
Daughter of the earth.
Born of the wind.
Weaver. 
Everchanging. 
Okanagan Okanogan 
blue bunch wheat grass! lovely photos and words with it !! 🙂
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She is having a beautiful year. It’s a very productive spring… except for choke cherries. They were devoured early by insects, despite their tremendous bloom.
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lovely post!
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thanks!
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Absolutely love these – you can hear the wind swishing the grass
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Thanks! There is also the sound of the grass brushing the thighs, and the other sound a bunch of it makes in the rain when you grab a handful to steady yourself on a hill. I haven’t figured out how to photograph those sounds, though.
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