Happy Easter! You can trust an animal that goes underground in August and comes up again Mid-April: sun, sun, sun and more sun! Today’s is the 700th post on Okanagan Okanogan. You have […]
Greetings from the Easter Marmot
Harold Rhenisch
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Saskatoon Petals Falling on Stone
A self portrait.
Earth Mother Visits the Abandoned Orchard
Looking good, Mrs. Coyote. Always good to see my people out and about, dressed in their going-to-town finery of light.
Industrial Agriculture is Unethical
Earth, or machine. One increases diversity. One reduces it. Or is it so? When the Syilx managed these grasslands with fire and selective harvesting methods, they increased species diversity. The species-rich landscape that the […]
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
The Ethical and Environmental Role of Poetry
Here’s an image of one ecological niche filled two ways, both of which move water into light. One creates biological life. The other creates electricity, in support of a custom of social life called […]
Walking With Coyote and Looking at the Stars
Walking through the bunchgrass. Walking through the sagebrush. Walking over the bed of an ancient sea. Looking at a supernova. Looking at planetary clusters. Looking at the solar system. Looking at the […]
Why Art Matters
Refraction is the process of light bending when it strikes the edge of a translucent medium, such as glass or water. What you see below on the lupines in my garden is […]
Robins Are Art
Great choreographed staging. Here’s a female. Here’s her guy.The next person who comes along and says that art is a human artifact, I tell you, I’ll take them for a walk. That’s what […]
Oh to Be an Eagle in the Springtime
Yesterday, I showed an image of the heron rookery in Vernon, which is, truly, a beautiful thing, and called it Oh to Be a Heron in the Springtime. Click here to see […]
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