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 
A cheery photo. . . . I was saddened when the six-foot-tall wild rose bush at a local church in Campbell River was chopped down last year; I used to stop and smell its blooms as I went by on my daily walks . . . But it is three inches high again already and sporting new blooms. Pretty resilient species.
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I’m glad it’s coming back. We had a fire up the hill five years back, here in the grassland, and they were among the first thing to come back, with eerie, red-tipped leaves like flames among the soot. It was very cool.
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Wild roses. A cause of ecstasy. A wild moment of delight. Pulling “me” away from the ego stasis just for a moment.
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Glad to help!
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Please excuse my patchwork presence here and there in your blog….this rose goes in and out of focus, like my attention, and hopefully, that’s OK. 🙂 Beautiful softness!
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Patchwork? I didn’t notice “patchwork”. You’re welcome here any time. Who, after all, could read all these posts? It’s more than a few. A library!
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i have similiar article
“9 WAYS TO READ PEOPLE’S MIND”
https://www.gegapedia.com/2018/07/02/9-ways-to-reed-peoples-mind/
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