Literally, a head…. … on the deer trail. What a shame that such a literal term as a head (the head of a ridge, a headland, and so on, all from head) […]
A Head on the Deer Trail
Okanagan Falls in Shadow and Starlight
Here’s the bank and flat of the old lakebed high above Okanagan Falls, and the shore the first people here would have walked along in the back, some, what, 12,000 years ago. […]
Let Me Show You Some Water
Here’s some. Like it? Here’s some more: Thirsty for more? Sure: Well, light showers, sure. Here’s a right downpour: Or maybe a hail storm? Or a spring flood? Enough of this talk […]
After Nature, Living Water
The land is your village. This might mean that forests look a little different. This Douglas-fir grove on the Big Bar Eskers is dying, partly because of the stress of the ingrowth […]
The Watcher of the Similkameen
Everyone in the Central Similkameen sees this watcher watching them from the eagle cliffs. Colonial Culture Calls it Daly Mountain. How long before we no longer remember that? When we were in […]
Climate Resilience 3: Self-Fertilizing and Self-Watering Islands
That’s right, islands in the grass. They’re not just sitting there. They are creating nitrogen and releasing minerals from the rock into a form that plants can use. In fact, instead of […]
Asteroid Strikes Vernon’s Upper Bella Vista River
Splutt! Fortunately, it was a small asteroid, and from a Near Earth orbit. Looks like it hurt, though. Best to keep an eye on those things! And wear a hard hat.
Does Water Make Soil? Ancient and Modern Views Take on the Great Mixer
From a pre-modern point of view, water, left to sit, will create soil. From a modern point of view, soil, suspended in water, settles out when the water stills. Some Very Nice […]
Fire’s Face
A year and a half ago, fire raced through the mountains of the Similkameen, but it did not take every tree, as you can see here above Chopaka. What it took was […]
The Spirit Caves of the Lower Fraser Canyon
High above the Fraser River at Yale… … the mountain’s bones break apart. From here… …they tumble down to the river, broken apart, I presume, all the way down. Within them, […]
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