So, I’m strolling along, whistling and happy in the sun, when one of the hawks that are so busy hunting in these snowy days leaps off a power pole and hassles a […]
The Hunter and the Hunted (and the Lovers, too)
Learning from Birds
Some of the people who live here only come two days a year. Cedar Waxwings Settling in for the Night on Their Way North, Okanagan Landing Without them, it would not be […]
Sharing the Planet
Canada Geese. Used to be they migrated south. Now? Not so much. They hang around and poop on beaches and … eyew. Up here in Vernon, they also hang around in orchards […]
Is Anyone Home?
There’s a new language in town. It’s a bit like listening in a mirror. To help you hear it, here’s an older language… Bird Footprints Among the Dinosaurs Royal Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, […]
Birds at Work
Want to get your colour palette right? Follow the birds! They make art, too. Staghorn Sumac Think of it like a paintbrush. And what do the birds make of it? Jackson Pollock, […]
A Good Use of Human Energy
Plant high pointy things. Wait. The Okanagan Okanogan Spruce, with friend Sometimes it takes forty years, but what’s that? Half a human lifetime? Pshaw. You can hurry it along by building a […]
Three Suns, One Path
So, you know, I’m hanging out with my buddies … … waiting for the apples of springtime, the ones that have bloomed in the basement and which turn to stars when thrown […]
Grace and Clumsiness
All this flurry and hurry and honking that carries for miles … Canada Geese Going Around in Circles Okanagan Landing … and all this grace and beauty … Migratory Birds … not […]
What Fences Are For
Here on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, the mystery of fences is revealed in all its contradictions. To set the scene, some local housing for humans… … and a local invitation […]
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
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