Time is a strange thing. The farther in distance we look into the night sky, the father back in time we are seeing. If we look far enough, we see the beginning […]
Respect
Spring Carnival
The snow keeps falling.Just this last week, the British Columbia Winter Games came to Vernon. Hundreds of young athletes celebrated personal and community excellence. On those parts of the valley where humans […]
Life Raft for the Grasslands
Can you imagine drowning on dry land? It happens. On the grasslands, the difference between breathing and drowning is so slight. For instance, at a height of 860 metres, after a day […]
Weird Things People Do to Trees
Trees are ancient creatures. Then humans came along. Somewhere along the way we forgot this: The Green Man An ancient symbol of human origin, the green man remains relatively common in churches […]
Getting Out of Town
History eventually becomes the present. For instance, to look back to the day when the entire Okanagan was a part of Oregon and the only business going was the raising of cattle […]
The Grace of Wine
Technical wine-making is a new invention. Before that, wine-making was an art. It still is. That’s what I’d like to talk about today, because discussions of winemaking usually give short shrift to […]
Marc, yeast, and terroir
Today, the first of a two-part series on the spiritual and environmental nature of wine, and what it can teach us about productive paths for our society as it works to reintegrate […]
The Problem with Winter
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons, right? In the temperate zone, of course. But what about the wet season and the dry season? In Vancouver or Seattle or Reykjavik, for instance, […]
Fog Crows
For three days, we have lived within the fog that has pulled the summer’s heat out of the lake and breathed it out around us. Here’s what that looks like: The World […]
The Art of Water
Cameras are intriguing machines, that not only capture light, but allow their operators to frame it in a visual space. That space is human. The photographs we take would be useless to […]
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