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.
Okanagan Okanogan 
I had an encounter with one of those in the woods. We came to do camping, and there was some sort of bug in the place we wanted to put our things on. So I moved it out there with the stick and the second it landed on the ground in about a meter from the palce he was before a black widow just jumped on him and catched him. It was so fast, a mere second had passed… that was totally creepy and amazing at the same time:)
P.S Wonderful photos…I woild be scared being that close…)))
LikeLike
Those are wonderfully fast spiders, that’s for sure. Thanks for your story, which deepens the mystery. They are everywhere in this landscape. Their webs absolutely cover the ceiling of my workshop, torn up by males as the weird pheremone marking thing that they do, guys eh, but the widows keep themselves hidden. I don’t go into a couple of hard-to-get-to corners, though! And in the crack behind the front step, no no, and behind that cactus in front of the garage, no way. She has an egg sac there. I really should move that thing.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I guess we know who is the queen in your house :))
LikeLike
They’re everywhere!
LikeLiked by 1 person