Imagine if hills were opened to create this instead of roads or shopping malls. Drilled and blasted bedrock in a quarry, with a limestone spring from the seabeds high above, a young […]
Better Than a Zen Garden
An Anthropocene Idyll in the Okanagan Petro State
Ah, lunchtime in the park. The joys of nature in the beautiful Okanagan Valley.Sure. New word: anthrobscene. (You know, you might disagree with me on that, but, really, if this is what […]
What Do You Call a Photograph When It’s Not Made With Light?
Photography: writing with light. A more anglo-saxon suggestion is sun print. There’s more to them than prints on paper. See that? That snow buckwheat is light written or (im)printed on metamorphic bedrock, or, actually, […]
It’s Mango Time!
We love you, stag horn sumac. But we love you, smooth sumac more. Oh, Staghorn, you come from Virginia. You knew Hiawatha in your youth. But smooth sumac, daughter […]
When Trees are Weeds
This is an old growth forest full of weeds. The sage brush is the weed … … not the bunch grass. Sagebrush is an indigenous plant, but it comes in a bit thickly when […]
Wetland Renewal and You
Have you loved your wetland today? This one is three years old. Just three! Forget the doom and gloom for a moment. The earth has a capacity for renewal. This wetland is […]
Photography and Human Survival
Pretty sumac leaves, huh. Look again below. Culturally, in Canada, people have the right to cut sumacs down like this and stack them up beside the street so they look like this the […]
We Are Not Alone
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone It is not biology that makes us into individuals, seeking to find Nature from behind our masks. How do I know? Because Nature is a cultural artefact, too. […]
The Gatekeeper of Yellowstone
Although Yellowstone is not the park called Yellowstone and begins far outside of that art work, millions drive past the gatekeeper on their way to the art work’s entrance. Bad manners, I […]
Car Culture in the Okanagan
There’s no water in this well. It’s art. In the interest of environmental goodness, to create art like this the land must first be covered with a continuous sheet of woven black plastic […]
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