Bees are attracted to pretty flowers. Wasps, too. In a healthy grassland, flowers continue all spring and summer and into the fall, with flowers for the big bumblers and tiny wasps and […]
Honeybees are a Red Herring
If We Went to the Water?
I mean, instead of bringing it to town? What if every house, or community, had to care for water. Currently, water is removed from almost all its streams and wetlands in the […]
The Fire is Us
There are fires in all directions, for the fourth year in a row. Note the smoke above, in the Okanagan, and below, in the Cariboo. Cough cough. There’s a lot of talk […]
What is Water For?
In a time of great fires, water is for putting them out, and for playing with your friends, in memory of times when the sky was clear. Pretty important things, eh. But […]
Unsettling Fire
Here’s the Flat Lake Fire when it first really got going a few evenings back, looking north from Big Bar Lake. And here’s the Bonaparte fire, through the smoke, off to the […]
How Hot is It in the Okanagan?
So hot that the native vegetation has abandoned summer, to wait it out until spring. It’s nice to think of this ancestor as a beautiful springtime sunflower. Truth is, it wouldn’t be […]
Flowers are Where It’s At
The daisy and the bee. The daisy with no bee. The second flower will, however, get pollinated. Not even a spider can wait forever, and it will be drenched with pollen when […]
The Food Chief Speaks
What We Need More Than Fences
Fence posts. Sincerely, your friend, California Quail.
Black Widow on Guard
The watch spider at my front door has been killing bees and using the protein to lay eggs. Here is one sac she’s just finishing up. 200 eggs in there. By the […]
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