At the bottom of Skaha Lake, where the Okanagan River once collected itself in a series of oxbows and reefs before dropping over the falls (a series of steep rapids), the point at […]
Ancient Stories Written in the Rock
Harold Rhenisch
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Staring at the Sun
Can you eat the sun? American Gold Finch Yes. Really? Elderberries, Okanagan Falls Yes. Can you stand on the sun without burning your feet? Yes! Can you become beams of light? […]
Okanagan Okanogan: The View From Here
Friends, it’s a happy day. Today, just over 35 months since I began with an image of the grassland (6 hits that day), and a gut feeling that a blog might prove a useful writing […]
Environmental Poetics
If sun … Trembling Aspen … or shade … Jerusalem Artichoke … were continuous … Saskatoon … or even divided … … there would be no life.They act as a […]
Julia’s Sunflower Has a Visitor
Julia Aleynikova is a young poet from the north east Ural mountains, who gave me six sunflower to plant while she went to Minsk for the summer. Her poem “Lady Fallen to Earth” […]
The Unity of Plants vs. Human Hate
The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
It’s a Harvest Celebration!
I’m loving the sun.
Gravity is Relative: The Wisdom of Wasps
To humans, gravity means you keep your feet on the ground. Not so for wasps. For them, it’s all fine to act that way when flying, but when you stop flying […]
Garage Sex, Okanagan Style
The marriage bed. Go away for 3 weeks and the neighbours move in, with each other on their mind. Madam came first. Yeah, she didn’t pose very well, but there was all […]
Veraison or The Time of Ripening
The green balls of malolactic and citric acid are turning to tartaric acid now, and depositing sugars as water flow into grape berries decreases. The skins of the grapes are beginning their mysteries, […]
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