Nature is a grave. That is an important point of Christianity, but not of the intermontane cultures of the North American West. What is in the grave is another matter. That is […]
Post-Racial Geography, an Introduction
This is not indigenous land. This is one of the main spiritual centres of my country, the Similkameen Valley. To call it indigenous, or native, land, is to adopt the words that […]
Arrow Hunting
The old deer trail is getting crowded. This … … is why it’s called “arrow-leafed balsam root”. Arrows are small spears, right?
Tree Swallows in the Grass
Home again! It’s the tree swallows, hungry and flying high. Just back yesterday after a long journey. They nest in the trees that thread through the shadows, but live in the […]
Colourful Spring in the North Okanagan
The wet season is at its peak! Who needs wildflowers when we have leaves, eh.
Tragedy in the Spring Snow
Our little herd of nine does had two fawns last year. The coyotes got one last week. This doe is now being very protective. It’s hard, though. Forage is reduced by overgrazing, the […]
More Than Ground Cover
When the weather is cool, spring is what you make of it. The red oregon grape leaves among the poison ivy berries I found growing along Kalamalka Lake, are attracting warm light, […]
Island in a Grassland Sea
Rocks are one of the richest grassland environments. They turn bodies of heat into surfaces and surfaces of heat into bodies. They turn winter into spring, spring into summer, and low into […]
Okanagan Spring Colours
Rose, dogwood and grass have recorded the winter sun and now, as that sun gives over to a spring one, release that knowledge. With this wisdom of grey, red and yellow the […]
A New Twist on Playing Dead
Last year’s stalks are pretty, but what life is left in them beyond that? Well… just look at their calyxes, all shrivelled and black, like perching spiders. Spiders who will bring death […]
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