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 rather think this is your blog in just one heading. That it is not just technology that changes the world. 15 billion years of the most astonishing patience in order to create one leaf, one fruit. But we are so impatient and think that everything must happen within the span of a single human life.
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Great observation! I’d say that “in the span of a human life” is longer than the current attention span, which is more like “in the span of an afternoon,” on the principle that humans make and create things out of thin air, or perhaps a few months. Having huge amounts of fossil energy available certainly helps to intensify these illusions.
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Does that makes this fruit an iQuince M(V)CDXXVI?
Or, perhaps, it is an iWince 2018.
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Or an iQuitte?
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