There are two major uses to which contemporary society puts the high country above the dry Okanagan Valley: water collection for settlement use, and forestry. As I suggested yesterday, the two are […]
Burning Water
Harold Rhenisch
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The Elegance of a Landscape (Within a Landscape) [Within a landscape]
Sometimes beauty is not just what we can see with our eyes. Take these leaves of rabbitbrush, for instance: Wet Season Rabbitbrush In the heat, its leaves will be far more silver […]
Water at Home
I am fascinated with the difference between how humans manage water in the desert and what the water is actually doing. Where, for instance, does the water go? Into the ground. What […]
Water, Slowed Down, Wayyyy Down
Today, we’re continuing to follow the water down from the high slopes. Here’s the obvious water in the Okanagan, and the seeming destination of any water flowing down off the hills. Okanagan […]
Hills of Water
At first glance, the grassland slopes of the Okanagan and the Okanogan appear to have little to do with water. They look dry indeed, perhaps with the lightest scattering of snow. High […]
Whose Water?
The 2011 Ice Wine season looks like it’s going to be a long time coming yet, deep into January or even February 2012. Maybe it’s time to think of making a late […]
A Pruning Tip
This is the time of year when those pruning clippers and saws in the workshop start looking very attractive again. It’s such a great joy to go out in the cold and […]
The Glory of the Sun
Late in the year, when summer visitors are at home, the Okanagan light comes into its own. This is the season when the sun just crests the hills, blows in almost horizontally […]
Winter Tomatoes
I wonder how much we need greenhouse tomatoes. Take a look at the tomatoes I picked from my garden on October 12, with a frost coming: The Last Tomato Harvest of the […]
Merry Christmas
I hope that your journeys through this past year have brought you the blessings of earth, water, air, and sun, and I send you my wish that they will lead to future […]
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