From the many … Rose Hips … the many … … that is one… … and from the one … … the one.
Every Wasp Nest is a Flower
Sustaining the Okanagan 13: Public Hardwood Lumber Woodlots
Plant a maple tree. Plant it beside a road. Roads collect water. Roads shed water. Ditches, which line roads, collect water. Or maybe they’re just barren spaces, and just for show and […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 11: Weaving Water to Combat Desertification
I know, I know, Chinese elms are a weed. They grow well here, though. Their flowers feed spring birds. In turn, those flowers have a zillion seeds … … and pop up […]
Landscaping for Water Capture
Welcome to the second of a series of posts on creating a sustainable Okanagan. They are archived on the menu bar above. Today: smart water. Read on… Wherever there is a crack, […]
A Picnic in the Saskatoons
The saskatoons are getting ripe, and what a year for them it is. Some people don’t seem to get it. I mean, the earth gives gifts, and (*&^!!@#!! A week ago, that young […]
Little Green Apple Ghosts
When flowering plants came on the earth they raised their blossoms into the air, and coloured them brightly with light, so that insects, the creatures of air and light, would find them. […]
Here, Kitty Kitty!
It’s time to nip, cat. This is the time of the year that’s just for you. It’s time to romp. It’s cat nip time. Purrfect.
Stories R Us
Story-telling, eh. Ain’t that the art form. Just 500 metres away, telling the following scene as a narrative, though … … is, literally, to tell it as a narrative, although it is nothing of […]
Okanagan Rock Gardens Aren’t Just About Rocks
I thought you might like to see. Desert Parsley, Yarrow, Blue Bunch Wheatgrass, and Ponderosa Pine Cones
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
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