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 
Excellent and very significant photo!
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There were even smaller ones, but they blurred out. So quick!
Interestingly, a week ago they were having a hard time competing with honeybees, but those ones seem to have been moved out for pollination, clearing the air a little. I’m sure everyone is glad!
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When I lived in Delta, some of the hazels (filberts) were so far upwind of the others that I feared the wind wouldn’t swirl around enough to cross-pollinate. So I cut off some catkins and shook them over the various plants. I felt somehow a little pornographic. I’d never be a good hybrid seed producer.
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Splendid. Did it work? I can see you with a furry stole on your shoulders, buzzing around the filberts.
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