I give thanks that the salmon have returned from Siberia to the Okanagan River, after the longest journey of any salmon in the world… And I grieve that their journey ends abruptly […]
Thanksgiving Salmon
That Old Watery Moon: A Year of Walking and Learning
Moon’s hanging around all day now. Frost in the tomatoes by the lower fence. Potatoes in the cellar. Light everywhere. Earth and Moon with Human Signature Humans are life. They love views […]
Ethics
Water and land are common resources. In terms of Common Law, that means that they belong to the people, all of the people, all of the time. Governments, which come and go […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 4
This is the fourth post in which I unravel a year long walkabout into threads, in preparation for weaving them together into book form, not to mention a presentation next week for […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 2
Welcome to the second summary of the first year of my explorations in revisioning the goals of literature and the relationship of place and environment in the dry country east of the […]
Everybody’s Friends
Today, I would like to celebrate the joy that my fellow bloggers have brought me and to mourn the unexpected passing of our Charles to the other side. The unrelieved joy and […]
Invasion and Defence in the Tomato Patch
Oh, I have beautiful troubles. First the scene … … and my beautiful defender … Those tomatoes are about 3 centimetres long. … and her handy-dandy repair job … What, you might […]
Green Zebra Tomato Juice Celebration!
Here is a joyous interlude, to fulfill a promise … Green Zebra Juice And a green zebra, too. So, the yellow tomato juice tasted like the sun, and I wondered if this […]
A Year of Walking and Learning
It has been a year now since I started walking into the hills with my camera as a way to write two books: one about energy and the land, and the other […]
Okanagan Okanogan 