I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
Quantum Mathematics Without Numbers on Okanagan Lake
Gulls know a mathematics far beyond of Grade School. It’s simple. You cleave a line in two. That’s quantum mechanics. By moving, you maintain it as it spreads. Water helps. But lines […]
Searching for a Unified Theory of the Universe?
Mathematics is not made out of numbers. Look what the waves have been doing. The physical world is not science. Look what the waves have been doing. Photography is not about cameras. […]
Colonial Okanagan
The colonial period is not over. How do I know? Because the millions of dollars that have been spent on this beach at the head of the West Arm of Okanagan Lake […]
Black Holes and White Holes
You know how when a star collapses it makes a black hole? You can’t see it, of course, because even the light you might see it by falls into its gravity. But […]
The Cunning Mouse Hunting Heron of Okanagan Landing
Look, maybe there aren’t that many wetlands left, because they are full of “airports sport fields houses roads road fill single wide trailers left over sidewalks trucked in from across town golf […]
The Lesson of the Snow
The days are short. By 3 pm there’s little light left. If I had any sense, I’d leave the camera at home. Fortunately, I have none. Look what I learned today at […]
A New School in the Okanagan Spreads Its Wings
Living Wild in the Stone Age Friday, January 10, 2014, Vernon Public Library, 4:30 p.m. (I’ll let you know how it goes.) “Spend a month in the wilderness, with only buckskin clothing, handmade […]
Where is the Government?
The government is the people’s voice. Sometimes it appears that the government is hiding. Sometimes, one is surprised just where it’s got to. Here is the art that Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo put […]
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