Welcome to the wavy leafed thistle, the bunchgrass thistle.Beloved of insects. Often because it’s the only native flower left. But also because it provides a solid landing pad. Very kind. And it’s […]
It’s Getting Crowded Out There!
Cascadia’s Flower
In Lewiston, Idaho, the mariposa lilies are beautiful. In Chelan, Washington, they are different altogether. And here in the North Okanagan, they have two shades. First, the lilac, slightly brighter than in […]
Summer Offering at Peshastin
A young bird (or an ancient one) … … needs to eat (or your soul does.) It’s the paying of attention that is the gift.
The Power of Two
This is a land that divides. Or is that upon this land people divide? Here we are on the Colville Indian Reservation, looking south across the Columbia River, as it begins to flow […]
Coyote’s Still Talking
Some cultures are so ancient that they watched the glaciers come and go 10,000 years ago. So it is with the Syilx culture of today’s Colville Confederated Tribes. Once the ice melted […]
Sagebrush Moose
Blending in. Got a problem with that? McLaughlin Canyon Road, Okanogan County, Washington
Be Like the Mouse Beneath the Hawk
This is Pahto, mistakenly called Mount Adams. She is one of the wives of the sun. Look at her rising like the sun over the White Swan plain. We’re a long way […]
Eel and Turtle
This morning, I showed an image of the mouth of Asotin Creek, where the Moray Eels used to spawn in the Snake River grasslands, in the far west of Washington, before the […]
The Snake and the Eel
What is a river, then? It is a stream, a flow, a run, which gives a Rhine, a Rhone, a river and a row. But what is it, when those words aren’t […]
Crow in the Snake
How long has this crow been flying at the mouth of the Snake River Canyon? Dunno. Here he is from the other side of the hill. I wonder how […]
Okanagan Okanogan 