So, which is “real”? The chokecherries at the end of day? Or the chokecherries seen through a moving camera’s errors? It sure seems to me that something of the chokecherry’s essence is […]
Freeing Ourselves from The Illusion of the Real
The Leaf Comes First
Look how the green of this siya? leaf hangs on between its ribs, even though they have largely shut down themselves. It’s like it’s living on its own. A leaf like this […]
Gardeners! Think of Your Friends!
It’s time to take a break from watching the starlings … …no matter how cool they are… …. which is pretty beautiful, for sure.. … and take care of your friends. It’s […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
Fire’s Face
A year and a half ago, fire raced through the mountains of the Similkameen, but it did not take every tree, as you can see here above Chopaka. What it took was […]
The Snow Buckwheat Game
Look how we got things wrong with our cool scientific thinking. Great thinking, but still, look how we got things wrong. What I mean is, scientific thinking has allowed for close study […]
Settler Culture? I Dunno. Ask Dickens.
I have a few questions. Why is Dickens (for example) studied in literature class at our local university, but not saskatoon leaves like this in the fall? Is this not writing? Is […]
A Bountiful Filbert Harvest
The filberts are here! This is after I washed them. Can you spot the one with the mouse hole in it? The mice got 10%. The rest, rescued from the lilac, the […]
Breathing the Sun
There is hardly a difference between Earth and sky. … is scarcely different from water cut by sky. Where the hillside is slowed by stones… … and snow buckwheat… Are these not […]
Surfing in the Sky
These days with layers of air sliding over each other … …are great ones for watching the clouds tell stories. Isn’t that a dog surfing, there?
