See, here’s how it goes. Yellow: Crab Spider Up to No Good Red… Mushroom Shrooming See how this works? Let’s practice some more. Yellow … Tiger Lily Red… Beetle on Milkweed Red […]
Western Tanagers Are Really Flowers NOT Birds
The Cicada Goddess Singing On the Mountain
I saw the goddess this morning, and she was beautiful. It was up on the mountain, on the lip of an old volcano, where a few Pinaus Lake Ponderosa Pines have survived […]
10 More New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan (And an Extra One for Fun)
Currently water is collected in the Okanagan by three methods. The first is to turn high country lakes and streams into reservoirs, which are then piped down into the valleys, to provide […]
10 More New Agricultural Locations for the Okanagan
Because land in the Okanagan Valley is vastly overpriced, due to its demand by Alberta oilmen for planting an American idea of French vineyards (a pure example of colonialism, if I’ve ever […]
The Social Uses of Colour Theory
While I am preparing a discussion of new agricultural sites to develop a renewed farming economy, a meditation about light , to set the scene. The German poet Goethe observed that shade […]
Rain Craters and Rain Fossils
It rained a couple inches in the June monsoons, it drained away, and it rained a little more on the muddied post-glacial lakebed silt. Rain Craters The Moon and Mars only get […]
New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
As we move to reclaim natural water processes in the valley grasslands of the Okanagan, we will need new water collection technologies. The systems we have now (upland lakes turned into reservoirs, […]
Spirit of Place
While I’m working on a post about new water technology, here’s a beautiful image of a wasp foraging in the staghorn sumac flowers up the hill. It haunts me. To see an […]
The Valley is Deep and the Sky is High
Look how there are three atmospheres in the valleys inland from the Coast Mountains and the rainforests of the Pacific shore. The first one is high and wet. It’s only wet because […]
The Ethics of Water in the Okanagan
For the last week, I’ve been displaying new crops for the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and the Okanogan Valley in Washington. These crops will allow food production to continue in the […]
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