Black Moss ( Bryoria fremontii) with water: an ancient syilx survival food. At a point there are attractions greater than attraction to the core of the earth. Here the molecular bonds of […]
The Flicker in the … Cold Mine?
The neighbourhood flicker is a handsome bird. And always watchful. We love our flicker! Especially in the orange light that breaks through the car exhaust that is the latest idea for this old […]
The Okanagan’s Dirty Secret
Is it the Dirty Laundry Winery? No. That’s actually a little bit of colonial Canadian culture using the Okanagan to market Canada to itself by romanticizing prostitution. That’s easy. No, no, I mean […]
How to Beat Global Warming By Turning the Grasslands Upside Down
Water has a surface tension. It divides light into bands of energy. It keeps some and sends more away, but not evenly. So does mullein. In mullein’s case, it covers its pulpy, […]
Rainbow Snow Above the Okanagan
Well, this is new weather for me. But I love it. Iridescent Clouds, December 3, 2017, 16:15, Looking West over Okanagan Lake Here is the big picture. Snow in the sky! Great […]
A Sky Map of the City of Coldstream
Downtown Coldstream, on the valley bottom north of Kalamalka Lake, is the hole in the centre of this map of clouds. The ribbed clouds below it are the eastern edge of its […]
A Starvation Winter is Coming
Ah, the ripening grass of Autumn. Yes, but this winter will be a hunger winter. Most awns and glumes are empty of seed. They look find, but the vast majority are empty. […]
The Beautiful Angles of the Grassland, or Baby, We Love You for More than Your Curves
Those of us who talk about grasslands, talk about their rounded curves a lot. Hey, Glaciers, thanks for that. This is a land held in tension against wind and light, using opposition […]
It is the Time for the Flowers of the Wind
It is time for all of us to put down what we are doing and walk out into the grass as she dances to the language of the universe passing through the […]
These Drops Will Not Fall
Here in the depressurized zone east of the Coast Mountains, they will soon be absorbed back into the air. They have only alighted for a moment on these cottonwoods, like birds.
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