In the very place where big sage (an aster) … … makes a sun of heat in the winter and melts the snow (bringing on summer two months early) … … … […]
Asters Looking Out for Each Other
Beautiful Wasp
She’s not very big, but she sure is beautiful! About 12 or 13 mm long, I’d say. The early bees took a beating in the winter, but later pollinators have fared better. […]
Hiding in Plain Sight: a Story with a Rosy Future
So, let’s say you want to eat wild rose petals, but don’t want to get eaten in turn and aren’t, say, as big as a mule deer and so, as far as […]
We are Creatures of Light
Let’s do an experiment. The world is getting heavy. It’s break-in under the strain. Let’s see what we’re missing out on. There is light. It is a weightless thing. That makes sense. […]
Canada: Country of Weeds
Seriously. Here’s an image of the Grey Canal trail in the Okanagan Valley, the syilx homeland that Canada claimed as its own in 1871. Every single plant you see in this image, […]
The Rose is a Powerful Teacher
Roses that grow in the open… … are easy enough to walk around and harvest, for humans, deer and late winter birds. It’s when they grow inside a thicket, planted there by […]
The Wrong Grass
When they’re happy, they climb the grass. When worried, they go back down. This is slow motion life. Try it again. Up. Down. I can’t help but think that a native grass […]
The Hand is Getting Along Fine On Its Own
There’s an energy wave that we see as landscape. Here’s my bit. Let me suggest that this is not a native landscape but a created one. Nature, let’s call it. A native […]
Pollination is Dangerous
Watch out, out there! Crab Spider Using a Balsam Root to Do Its Work (Beats chasing around. Note: the bees will not agree.)
Predation, Cottonwoods and Your Friendly Neighbourhood AI
These cottonwood leaves are opening well. They aren’t new. Yes, opening, not “growing.” They were present all winter, tightly folded inside shells held up on limbs. There has been no break in […]
Okanagan Okanogan 