It’s nice to meet old friends. Here’s an Icelandic troll I found at dawn on Easter two years ago. Here’s the Okanagan version I found on Kalamalka Lake four days ago. […]
Trolls in the Okanagan and Iceland
For the Love of Water
Light is pretty great stuff. Add it to grass and it’s even greater. Water helps. A lot. Some forms of life are the embodiment of the energy of the intersection of water […]
I Found Your Fishing Line
No, not here. Not here! Not here. That would be silly. Here. In between. Or maybe you were trying to settle in like this? All images from Kalamalka Lake, except the American Robin […]
And Then Comes the Hawk
So, you’re gushing over the watercress of springtime … … and who should come but some old friends you knew on the plateau years back … The Bohemian Waxwings Are Here! As […]
The Advantage of Bohemian Waxwing Ankle Joints
I want some. The hair, too!
Recipe for Life
Slide the land 100 kilometres over a volcanic island. Blow it all up. Spew molten rock. Let it cool for 55 million years. Add snow.Then sun. See what happens. The water erupts into fire! […]
Seeing in the Dark, Part II
Yesterday I proposed that the science of light and the world it allows humans to see … … was a deduction, a creative act, so to speak, not a leap of faith […]
Seeing in the Dark: A Meditation on Science, Art and Human Nature…part 1
I was walking the other day, as I like to do (it’s a way of thinking and breathing at the same time), when I felt myself walking into something and, you know, I […]
Colour
On a cloudy day it is clear that light doesn’t appear as intensity of energy, because that is equal everywhere. Intensity appears as colour. And that is enough. Look at it […]
Starlings on the Moon
What can I say. It’s a beautiful thing.
Okanagan Okanogan 