In honour of my 500th post in this exploration… The Okanagan Okanagan Nuclear Reactor at 500! With a nuclear engineer, even! Hurrah! …I’d like to ask a question of the ideal university. […]
Mapping the Formation of the Solar System, Now
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
The Ethics of Science, Art and Light
Here’s some mullein blooming against a backdrop of grasses gone to seed. The seeds represent four months of light transformed into starches and stored in the seeds of the grass, which show up […]
The Biggest Mystery of All
Why yellow pollen? Green Sweat Bee in the Chicory On Her Way Home Why white pollen? Wasp Bathing in White Chicory Pollen No Yellow Pollen Cheating in the Mullein for Her I […]
When is a Weed a Weed? When Isn’t It?
Scotch thistle is listed as a noxious weed. To whom? Not to Western Swallowtails tattered by the wind. Not to green sweat bees. Not to bumblebees and Western Swallowtails at once. Maybe […]
Slow Food: Robin Waiting for Dinner
This robin’s first brood were two such big louts that I think they burst their nest. Certainly, they fell to the ground, where she fed them for a week until they were […]
Mule Deer Property Rights
Ah, the lure of home ownership! You’re just hanging around in the knapweed, let’s say, which tastes like a mixture of road tar and BAAHHH, and thinking, ah, a bit of leafy […]
Medicine Fly
This grassland creature is full of powerful medicine. Until someone corrects me, I’m just going to call it medicine fly. Ignorance, perhaps, is bliss. I’ve noticed her sisters on the hill for […]
A Tiny Lexicon of Indigenous Language
Supernova… Clover In the shamanic traditions of the grasslands, the ground we walk upon is also the other world, where the dead walk among the stars. It is only a frozen shell […]
The Earth: An Owner’s Manual
This planet? Owned by humans? Too funny! Oregon Grape with Fly I took some photos of some ripe Oregon grapes today, because the light was good and they usually overexpose. When I […]
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