She’s beautiful. She has lonnnnnng grasshopper legs. And a sharp, beady eye like a packrat. See what I mean about the legs? She loves flowers, for sure, but she also has a […]
Grasshopper Bee Fly
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The Old Swimming Hole
So much for a high water year. But if you were a duck, eh!
Butterfly Spook
Claws. Or beauty. The second is how humans see.
It’s Only a Desert Because We Killed the Water Keepers
Sobbing water. Sad water (30 minutes from public sobbing). Sadder water. (32 minutes from open sobbing.) Happy water. Yay! Love a beaver today!
Blue Bunch Wheatgrass and Gravity
The blue bunch wheatgrass of the West, the signature grass of the Intermontane Grasslands, the beautiful one herself, stands straight and tall, until her seeds grow heavy and weigh her down, but […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 17: Environmental Depreciation Tax
At the moment, farmers can mine gravel on their land and deduct the income from their taxes, as a loss of value. The result can be a vineyard, like the one below. […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 16: Let’s Get Syrian
This is one of a series of posts on creating sustainability in the Okanagan/Okanogan, a valley between the Monashee, Okanagan and Pasayten Ranges in north western North America. This valley, and the […]
Peaches and the Meaning of Life
I went to my tree this morning and knew ……this is why we live… …this morning and another year. The last transparent thinks so, too! Look at her with her red haven […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 15: Time for Thyme!
We don’t need lawn. Or gravel. But what about thyme? No mowing. No watering. The thyme below is just growing at the side of the road. Flowers for the bees! Something for the […]
Living in the Universe
The arc of a rainbow and the arc of a fire sprinkler are both the result of gravity on an extraterrestrial level. We really are living among the stars.
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