Here on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, the mystery of fences is revealed in all its contradictions. To set the scene, some local housing for humans… … and a local invitation […]
What Fences Are For
Be Like the Chickadees
Share. Live from the land. Be joyous. Share that, too. Chickadees Feeding in January Today’s three course menu: russian thistle seeds, red root pigweed seeds, & sagebrush seeds, too
The Future Looks Like This
We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]
Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!
There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]
Staring at the Sun
Whoever said you couldn’t look at the sun didn’t live underwater. January Sun at Noon, Okanagan Landing Whoever it was said that the sun was yellow, doesn’t live on the earth in […]
Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!
It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]
Flying Fish in the Grasslands
Winter cloud blows east off of the Pacific Ocean. When it strikes the Northwestern North American Coast it crests around the three thousand metre high peaks of the Coast Mountains … Photo: […]
What are Weeds For?
This: Russian Thistle is Preferred Above All If native species were replanted, there would be different birds. Simple. Clear.
Glaciation is Our Name
Did you think the glaciers were gone? Na! All they need is a single weed stalk and they can get a foothold again. On top of their old moraines. This, by the […]
An Unexpected Companion
Look who has been up in the ravine eating the bark off of choke cherry trees and now has places to go that entail a very slow walk across the face of […]
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