After thinking about water yesterday, and how it is moved from place to place with the sun’s heat, which it stored and gave back again under the soil surface, I went to […]
Poetic Light
The Weight of Air
The earth’s surface, where humans live, is a complex interface. Even something as simple as snow is part of a complex energy transfer here. The World of Snow When the apparatus of […]
Water Footprint
The term “water footprint” is part of the vocabulary of the green revolution. It is used to describe the amount of water used by an activity. I’ve recently heard the suggestion that […]
The Earth is Alive
We are not alone. This is fantastic news. Burrow in the Valley It looks like the resident is at home, too, waiting out the months of bad hunting. Such times of rest […]
Adding and Subtracting Value
Words are curious things. Here are two, often used together by government and industry: value and added. Together they indicate a concept by which an area of production (vegetable growing, perhaps) can […]
Xeriscaping Alternatives
It’s all the buzz these days: xeriscaping. It’s a big name for a kind of landscaping that conserves water. Where do you start? It’s easy. You have your new home in the […]
Eagle and Turtle
There’s an old Okanogan story about Eagle and Turtle. Here’s a simple version from Colville, Washington. A more complex version from the head of Okanagan Lake is embedded in an interview, here. In the […]
Wild Harvest
Since farmland prices in the Canadian Okanagan has been pushed to dizzy heights by the scarcity created by the International Border between Osoyoos and Oroville, and no young person can farm anymore […]
An Unexpected World
Although the British Columbia Interior is often described as a series of mountain ranges, separated by deep valleys, it’s more accurately an almost continuous plateau, cut by deep fault lines and glacial […]
Ancient River
A lot of water passed through this country once, on its way to and from somewhere else. As evidence, I present a strip of bedrock at the base of Vernon’s Turtle Mountain. […]
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