I found this individual creeping just above the strand line along the shore of Okanagan Lake. It’s a beautiful creature, but what is it? Does anyone out there know? I thought it […]
Anyone Know What This Is?
Okanagan Architectural Bloopers, Part 4: Plastic, Imitation and Gravity
Basalt rock breaks into angular shapes, of differing dimensions, according to how it cooled, This is pretty standard for the North Okanagan: These rocks roll naturally down slope and collect in hollows […]
The Tree Whisperer: My New Book on the Poetry of Tree Pruning
This is a beautiful book, that holds 51 years of my personal tree pruning experience, and a few thousand years of ancestral experience behind it. This hand-made book is just out from […]
A Head on the Deer Trail
Literally, a head…. … on the deer trail. What a shame that such a literal term as a head (the head of a ridge, a headland, and so on, all from head) […]
Deer Trail Engineering Question
So here’s a trail the mule deer have cut up a slope above a pumping station in Vernon. They chose an angle of around 20 degrees, except for that steeper bit in […]
Okanagan Architectural Bloopers 4: The Thing About Gravity
Gravity is a weak force, but it’s awfully persistent. It gives us hills, with bits that are up and bits that were up and are now down. So, that’s nice. Oh, one […]
Fail and Fail Again: Okanagan Architectural Blooper, Part 3
This is not good! In January, I knocked on the door of this house and suggested they had a problem. Here’s the problem from around this time last year, before it got […]
Mountain Honey
Seven years ago, I found an apple tree the porcupine planted up the hill. You can read my original post here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2014/10/20/porcupine-the-gardener/ I thought it was nice and firm and a bit […]
Minding the Earth
To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
Look, First: Updating Scientific Method
This is red osier dogwood, or Siberian dogwood, if you will. Have a look at her. Nice work with the star clusters there. Here’s another look: See that? When she grows in […]
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