In a year of stress, everyone, from those ants to the right to the leaf miner that left its trail in this cottonwood leaf, is mining the last pools of spring water […]
I Said Hello, and Then…
My companions thought I was a little silly, but Raven circled back to say hello too, after that. The language of this land is worth learning, even in the smoke!
Raven Contemplates Fire
Salmon Arm, Shuswap Lake That’s 100 years of smoke between Raven and the water.
Where the Woods Meet the Water
Yesterday, I mentioned that Naomi Klein’s critique of this past season of storms and fires missed a Cascadian perspective. Here’s one, from Shuswap Lake. Let me decode that. When one is of […]
Blend In! (Not.)
Drought makes it easier for birds. They need the help. Sucks for stink bugs and lilacs-planted-in-the-wrong-place, though.
String Theory and Black Holes in the Summer of Smoke
There is a way of increasing the effects of gravity. Here is a picture of the string theory of contemporary physics, out of the laboratory and in the real world. Call it […]
Buzzards in the Smoke of Sexqéltkemc Territory
The most beautiful fliers prosper in the dying land. As we approach zero, we are born from it again.
Construction Gone Bad in Vernon
Men have been digging at the hill to make a level place to build houses, and have put up a wall of blasted rock to hold the hill back. Note the deer. […]
The Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
Pick Your Camoflauge!
Blend in. Or look like you blew in on the wind. And hang on. That’s the way.
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