Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Mr. Nobel, You Have a Lot to Answer For
Human spring. Bella Vista Spring. Human spring. Bumblebee Spring. Human Spring. Coyote’s Front Yard Spring. Human Spring. Okanagan Lake Spring. Dynamite Spring. Deer Trail Spring. Grassland spring. Only one is called progress, […]
Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day
Windy day up on the hill. No bees, but many flowers making themselves all pretty for them. That’s a beautiful flower. When you’re from this place, it’s the only one for you, […]
You Do It By Sweating Hard
Red osier dogwood dissipates heat by colour (the hotter the climate, the deeper the winter colour)…. …and ponderosa pine does it by shape. So, that makes us equal. Good.
The Miracle of Water
The big sage that held water for years against the pull of the sun, and grew thick with time, now holds water and earth in place by stopping the wind in its […]
The Land is Deep
From the smallest … … to the largest … … it is one.
First the Seed then the Flower
It begins. Arrow-leafed Balsam Root Looking for the Sun No one Need Look Alone
Reading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a […]
Illusions of Water Create Realities of Drought
Volcanic landscape, right? Wrong. It’s made by water. Neskonlith Falls Below is the old periglacial lake bottom of Glacial Lake Kamloops. That flat land is the bottom of the lake. The train […]
Green Fire
Cheatgrass burns off a whole season’s water at once … in early March. By May, this will be a desert, and this fire will be red. This sagebrush-cheatgrass culture takes the place […]
Okanagan Okanogan 