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 Miracle of Water
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 […]
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
The Bones of Our Mother
This is our mother. These are the bones of our mother, with the glacial outwash gravel that cut them from her body above. These are some of our mother’s bones weathering in the […]
Earth and Story
I know the land. I’ve known it for a long time. I know the stories. I’ve known them for a long time. Stories of Coyote, for example, that howler..Such knowledge is useless […]
Okanagan Okanogan 