Humans are addicted. This group of highly social animals that operates on the assumption that it has free will is as tightly a part of ecosystems as the plants in this image […]
Humans on Drugs
Telling Stories through Photography
When I started these notes, I wanted to record explorations of a near-desert caught in the winds of the mountains far inland from the sea. The salmon, I thought, were the ones […]
Grass, Desertification, Allan Savary and Carbon Storage
Allan Savory is brilliant. He talks about grass. Believe every word he says, but if you live in Western North America don’t believe a word of it. Source If you would like […]
Glaciation is Our Name
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 […]
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 