So, you know, I’m hanging out with my buddies … … waiting for the apples of springtime, the ones that have bloomed in the basement and which turn to stars when thrown […]
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Grace and Clumsiness
All this flurry and hurry and honking that carries for miles … Canada Geese Going Around in Circles Okanagan Landing … and all this grace and beauty … Migratory Birds … not […]
What Fences Are For
Here on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, the mystery of fences is revealed in all its contradictions. To set the scene, some local housing for humans… … and a local invitation […]
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
The Future Looks Like This
We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]
Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!
There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]
What Do You Say to a Glacier?
To see the last ice age up close, all you need to do is go to the mountains on the northern fringe of the desert that stretches from Central Mexico through California, […]
Winter Sunset
For weeks, I have been growing increasingly excited about the luminous, directionless white light that has been filtering down through the clouds. Yesterday, I pointed out how the sun is not yellow, […]
Staring at the Sun
Whoever said you couldn’t look at the sun didn’t live underwater. January Sun at Noon, Okanagan Landing Whoever it was said that the sun was yellow, doesn’t live on the earth in […]
Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!
It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]
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