This is one of a series of posts about how to maintain a local landscape in the face of technological pressure. In this case, both the primary observation (all land and landscape […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 19: Humans, Class and Environment
The Bears of the Sun
Meet my friend kinnikinnik. She lives in the sun. See how the sun that this boulder catches in the early spring keeps her warm nights, so she can set and ripen her […]
The Cost of Nature
This is tourism. The image below shows the price of tourism. Hey, the water had to come from somewhere, eh. The myth of Canada is that we can have it all, that […]
Appetite, the Commons and Private Land
Henry David Thoreau argued that industrial agriculture and slavery were expressions of the same impulse, which led towards the replacement of common experience and trade with private […]
Beautiful Wasp at Home
Somebody loves snow buckwheat. Best not to plant lavender in its place, don’t you think?
Sustaining the Okanagan 18: Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Selfhood
Five days ago, I found a psychological diagram attached to a dropped hand-out for the truth and reconciliation process for creating healthy selves in adults who had suffered personal or cultural violence during Canada’s residential […]
Memory in the Grand Coulee
When people first looked out of this rock shelter in the Grand Coulee, there would have been no scree on the cliffs on the far shore of this ancient river, but there would […]
Grasshopper Bee Fly
She’s beautiful. She has lonnnnnng grasshopper legs. And a sharp, beady eye like a packrat. See what I mean about the legs? She loves flowers, for sure, but she also has a […]
Blue Bunch Wheatgrass and Gravity
The blue bunch wheatgrass of the West, the signature grass of the Intermontane Grasslands, the beautiful one herself, stands straight and tall, until her seeds grow heavy and weigh her down, but […]
Every Wasp Nest is a Flower
From the many … Rose Hips … the many … … that is one… … and from the one … … the one.
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