These wild currants were just humming with bees today. None were domestic bees. Bumblebees and some mid-sized black ones, very sleek. For the first time in years, no insect pests, no damaged […]
Pacific Wild Currant Having a Great Day in the Sun
Why I Love Mud and Muck
Because the mourning cloaks do! It’s a good time to go ruin your shoes. Go on, now. It’s worth it.
Pruning Fun at Splatsin, or Keeping Safe
Ah, such fun. Here are Edna’s cherry trees at Splatsin, pruned so she can reach the fruit without a family giraffe. Sometimes, that’s what food sustainability means most of all. And her […]
The Amazing Long-Distance Relationships Between Bee, Flower and Bird
To gather pollen, a bee is completely exposed — easily spotted from a distance. Their defense is to flee when there is any shadow passing over the yellow cushion of the flower. […]
Traveller at the Core of the Sun
Fare well, voyagers! What a day for space travel!
The Islands of Cascadia
Muscular. An Oyster Without a Shell Bare. A Head, With its Body Under the Sea Treed. A Mouth Speaking. A Head Opening Up. Bodies. A Double-Headed Person with a Shared […]
Know Your Place
If you were to walk up this draw in the Similkameen, you would meet a few of the Earth’s faces at the toes of these interlocked ridges, pass by them in story, […]
The Morning Mountain Speaks
The North East wall of the Cascades speaks the news daily with the rising sun above Keremeos. You can note the news yesterday before sunrise. Note the eagle’s beak dividing the […]
A Cascadian Symphony
At Rialto Beach, you make a musical instrument. It plays you, and you are the music. You might have left it as a message for the sea, but the sea will take […]
Cascadia: From Fish to Lumber to Tourism to …
We are on a path of social evolution. The salmon are gone, and the oysters were long go poisoned by the plutonium plants on the Columbia. The great lumber industry that followed […]
Okanagan Okanogan 