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 […]
The Future Looks Like This
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. […]
Everybody’s Friends
Today, I would like to celebrate the joy that my fellow bloggers have brought me and to mourn the unexpected passing of our Charles to the other side. The unrelieved joy and […]
Poppy Seed Buzz
It is a joy to live on seasonal earth. Icelandic Poppy in My Flower Meadow The year is winding down, just when I was enjoying having it around. Ahhhhhh, but there’s a […]
Oops a Daisy
In books, irony is delightful. In the world, not always quite so much. As I pointed out a couple weeks back, a new biological weapon against Spotted Knapweed, the plant that Satan […]
The Red Shift 2
Palettes of colour can provide lenses with which to enter into the landscape. That was the story last week. To put on those glasses, click here. The earth may be an art […]
Putting That Mower Away
Here are two kinds of lawns. The first shows the species diversity that has been created out of the wetlands at the head of Okanagan Lake at Okanagan Landing. Marshall Field Soccer […]
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