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 
Lucky you! Around here, the Saskatoons don’t find the sandy soil a feast for their needs, so I just get half a handfull of these tasty fruits from my much too slow growing “tree”. I learned to love them in my Austrian garden once, where they were so much happier growing fast and producing berries like in a rush, in a moisty ground with clay an lime. I am still dreaming of.
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My cousin in München has a Felsenbeere, which is surely a Saskatoon by another name and his soil is awful. And no cliff. But a sidewalk. Such mysteries.
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“Felsenbeere” this is the way they are named in German, and there are some varieties. Did not know about your language-skills: mysteries all around 🙂
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Meine Familie ist überall in Deutschland und in der Schweiz und auch (in den USA und in Kanada.) Nach dem Krieg saßen die acht Kinder im Herrenzimmer, dann kam eine Neutronenbombe oder sowas, es gab einen großen Krach, und jetzt sind sie weit voneinander zerstreut, mit Kinder, Enkelkinder und Möbeln. Ich muß viel Geld ausgeben, alle zu besuchen. Man könnte mich also auch als einen Art Klebstoff betrachten.
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Schön, wenn man noch die Maschen eines Netzes so zusammenhalten kann. Die versprengten Teile meiner verzogenen und ausgewanderter Familienanteile haben leider den Zusammenhang verloren.
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Schade.
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Such gorgeous colors, Harold! The third photo looks like you had a glorious breeze helping you create….
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