Hansel in 1935 It begins with a grandfather taking a boy out into the garden. Then comes eight decades (and a bit more) of working with the earth to keep that moment […]
In Memory of Hans Rhenisch, Gardener, 1932-2017
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Water in Fire Country
The Okanogan River (left) Entering the Columbia At the mouth of the Okanogan River, which begins with snow melting on the rocks above my house in mid-winter, water is privately owned, whether […]
The World According to Wild Mustard
What starts out cool and soft and evaporating out of stone … … leaves stone behind, warm and hard and singing in the wind. These are the mysteries.
How An Ecosystem Works: The Daisy Model
If you want to find beetles, give them a soft bed, the complementary shape to a beetle, and wait. They will come, because they made you that way.
Big Sage Doesn’t Know Autumn
She doesn’t know spring, summer or fall, drought or rain. She just knows the flow within twigs. Her connection with the earth is that sure and self-contained.
Grass Catching the Sun
This is how to walk through the face of the sun. Pretty great, eh! NASA, sorry guys, but we’re already there.
One Sky or Another
Or two at once. Hello from down at the bottom of the pool. Anyway you shake it, we are trout looking up.
Midsummer Autumn
Celebrate the season! It’s a colour palette for rejoicing. Art without four seasons. Life without four seasons. Life with dozens, often two at the same time, passing through each other like clouds! […]
The Centre of the Earth
The cinder cone is gone, but the bones of the land remain. This is my city, Vernon, viewed from its northeast rim. In the center left of the image is the old […]
Of Fur Coats and Google: Okanagan Style
Either this … … or Google’s algorhythmic reductions. Both are images of the human mind frozen in time.
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