It’s rare to find a little bit of landscaping that can pass as art, without bending the mind to do so. Here’s one, though, for sure: Device for Capturing the Energies of […]
Aliens Among Us
How thin is the world … Apple Orchard Under the May Sky In the 236,513,210,000,000,0000,000,000,000 metres from one side of the universe to the other, these apple trees take up 2 metres of […]
Many Worlds
Ever since Apollo astronauts sent back a picture of the blue earth hanging in space, it has been easy to imagine the earth as a drop of water in the emptiness: tiny, […]
Creatures of Light
Some people try to define life. It’s a little bit like locking yourself in a library stacked with millions of volumes of texts. The fluorescent lights hum. The electrically-disturbed atmosphere makes your […]
Sometimes Art is the Wrong Thing
Ah, the farming life. The Absentee Farmer Replaces His Loyal Guard Dog with a Spy Cam and an Internet Link This is art. It’s not just the farmers who are expressing their […]
A War Against Trees
Here’s what trees are doing, when left to their own devices… Sproing Actually, this is what water is doing. As water evaporates from leaves folded all winter inside the egg cases of […]
The Kind of Planet This Is
What if the sun got hungry, or the earth did? Where would she go for a top up? How about off to the local lilac? Western Tiger Swallowtail + Lilac + Sun […]
Choke Cherries and Pinot Noir
I think it’s time to liberate the things of the world. Choke Cherries, Unite! Yup, as humans we’re used to talking about things with words, but here in the Okanagan Okanogan we […]
Flower Maps
What is a flower? Ah, we might as well ask what is a man or a woman or a society. That’s the way with humans. They leave maps, trails, and footsteps. Some […]
The Language of Flowers
So, we were talking about flowers, way back, five hundred years ago in Iceland, when you picked a bouquet of wildflowers for your sweetie and they were instantly civilized, just like that. […]
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