I’ve been on a journey. The journey is the coming home. It is the story. It is the going forward to come back. Every spring, the Earth changes the story. Every spring […]
Earth Mother in Secwepemc Country
The Marmots Are Up and At ‘Em
Yellow-Bellied Marmot, Nicola Lake Pretty early, I’d say. I wonder what it knows.
Pinching Water in the Grasslands: Decolonizing Technology
In the spring fog, the bunchgrass reveals its technological secrets. It catches water from the air, which is pretty beautiful, for sure. Lots of water, too. If you walk through this stuff, […]
The Mind of the Wilderness
Well, let’s get right to the heart of it, this is the mind of the wilderness. Big Bar Lake Wetland Even in the dry grasslands, everything comes to water and everything leaves from […]
Entering the Wild
I tell ya, have a look. Life forms growing wild. Pine, alfalfa, big sage, red dogwood. All tangled. Wild. Or maybe not. Have a gander at the image below. Just a half […]
Fjall: The Setting Forth from English as a Colonial Language
Well, here it is, Okanagan Lake, a fjord lake over-deepened by a melting glacier and filling a gap some 1600 metres deep. The rock in the background of the image below is […]
When the Snow is the Sky
Ah, so beautiful. Warming and cooling and sun shining through the ice, melting it from below under its icy skin, have made a beautiful thing, neither winter nor spring but both. Pretty […]
The Pheasants are Messing With You (and the Coyotes, Too)
Check out this ring-necked pheasant sneaking away from me through the sagebrush and wild roses. What a guy. But what an environment! We know pheasants mostly by their habit of bolting at […]
Gravity and Wind
So, this is cool. Snow falls, and that’s gravity. It stores the gravity as mass, and crushes the poor old mustard to the ground, the poor dear, sob, but, ta da! The […]
What Saskatoons, Elms and Ashes Can Teach Us About Global Warming
The buds of saskatoons opened on February 1 this year. We can expect the cold to keep them in this expectant state for many weeks yet. Look at the tiny blossoms touching the […]
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