Blue water pours freely under the sun, white water rushes with gravity, grey water is polluted by human use, black water is water that could be there, according to the capacity of […]
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Before You Rip Out that Skeleton Weed
… remember that dragonflies like it when they’re up in the dry grass. It would be good to figure out why. Is it because wasp hunters like the yellow clover? Dunno. Ma’am, […]
A Celebration of the Sophisticated Art Traditions of the Okanagan Valley
The art of flirting artfully with danger … … needs a stage that is, itself, art. In it, you can put, well, art. Some options for the Okanagan lifestyle from Hambleton Gallery […]
Gravity Mining and Capture
Look at this vetch, with its spherical black seed, poised to capture the energy from a small gravity drop and translate it into a burrowing hide under the vetch stalks and the […]
Fire in the Similkameen
Things are burning up in the high country between Keremeos and the Pasayten wilderness. Here was the view Thursday morning, looking south from Olalla towards K Mountain. By 4 pm I left […]
Build An Earth for Wasps? Now’s the Time!
Right in this season, right now, sales of wasp-killing products are peaking, as the yellow jackets drive everyone away from eating outdoors. It can be freaky, especially when the nests are right […]
Water Quality in Vernon: We’ve Got You Covered
I contacted the city a year ago that water was leaking from this weird plumbing array and filling the ditch. They came, they tested, said it was ground water, not their water, […]
The Beauty of Circles and Lines
Circles and lines are beautiful, for sure, and always draw the eye in close, and keep it there, too. Yellow Dock Let’s face it. The mind just loves looking at its own […]
Labour, Luxury and Oil in Vernon
Apples are produced so cheaply in Washington on Mexican labour, and run so cheaply over huge packing lines, and sold so cheaply through integrated wholesale and retail sales chains, that here in […]
The Beauty of Leaves and Light
Look how this young cottonwood leaf glows with light, and how the older leaves (by just a day or two), now full of chlorophyll, keep much of it. Here’s a similar effect […]
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