Did you think the glaciers were gone? Na! All they need is a single weed stalk and they can get a foothold again. On top of their old moraines. This, by the […]
Glaciation is Our Name
The Nature of Photography
A camera lens is a device for making images of light. It does not capture the light, as leaves can do. It does not do the other things that a human eye […]
A Science of Colour and the Art of Science
I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
Water, the Inuit and Everyone
The road is long. It is worth travelling. The road is hard. It must be taken. These aren’t proverbs. They are signposts on the road to environmental reconstruction of human social relationships […]
No Place to Spawn
When the salmon of the Okanagan River come home over eleven dams on their year-long journey from Siberia… …they can’t spawn in their traditional home, the Skaha and Okanagan Lake Systems, because […]
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 […]
Sprouting a Future Without Water
This beautiful valley is running out of water. There are many culprits, and not all of them the usual suspects. Today, I’d like to talk about one small solution, which entails using […]
For the Love of Weeds
There is a group of plants that produce food, require little or no irrigation, little care, and are open to be shared by human and animal grazers. They are called weeds. They […]
Writing on Rock
Writing about the culture that has come out of aboriginal-settler relationships in what is sometimes called the Late West, is a bit like peeling a layer off an onion, and there’s another […]
Okanagan Okanogan 