Here’s something cool about dogs. Footprints in the Snow Dogs follow edges. When you’re a dog, you don’t even think about it. You go for boundaries, and you stay there. Since the […]
Dogs and Humans: the Showdown
Environmental Accounting & Poverty
In my last post, I spoke about the Old Norse concept of a tun, a farm yard constructed at the intersection of social and physical earths. I argued that tuns created the […]
Creative Space in Iceland
I’d like to show you a post I just made for my Icelandic blog, because it links to ideas about creativity I played with here a couple days ago. Those ideas link […]
A Visit to the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
University Health Sciences Building. University Health Sciences Building Garden University Health Sciences Building Parking Lot Garden Natural Late January Wild Rock Garden (Off Campus.) University Health Sciences Building Art University Health Sciences […]
A Thought on Creativity
In contemporary culture, creativity (a rather new term) is a word used to describe a vast array of impulses. The New World Encyclopedia sums it up like this: Creativity is a process involving […]
Water, Life and Thought:
What is the difference between this? And this? Why, the same as the difference between this… … and this. None at all. Water flows. Sometimes it takes minerals along with it. Sometimes […]
What to Look for On Mars
The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
Moss Going Weird in an Early Thaw
Ah, botanists, I have a mystery here. Perhaps you can help. What on earth is this moss in the image below? I was walking up on the Bella Vista Hills above Okanagan […]
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
There is a tree that determines the home range of a people. This is the North Plateau Ponderosa Pine, known in Latin as pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson. Wherever this tree […]
Who’s the Best Mouser of Them All (in the fog)?
Is it the coyote? Or is it the magpies? You gotta admit. They have a lot of eyes and beaks to devote to the task. But maybe it’s the great […]
Okanagan Okanogan 