Back before 1920, watercolour painters used to paint landscapes to portray previously unnoticed colours they had seen in nature. That was the age in which the dominant European agricultural images of the […]
Cool Water Tech
These bunchgrass individuals are growing on almost bare stone, high on a slope three hundred metres above the valley floor and little troubled by weeds. This is the cloud zone that has […]
Leisure Economy or Value Added Economy?
In the Okanagan, the economy is largely built around real estate development, which is built around people playing on water. Well, sort of: The Leisure Economy in November A summer culture waiting […]
What Season is This, Anyway?
Spring, of course! Take a look. Mid-November, and Spring Has Sprung in the North Okanagan A day before, these new weeds were sitting under three inches of snow. The snow will be […]
Financial Matters
Up in the British Columbian Okanagan, we have just come through a civic election. Throughout the valley, the call was heard for responsible civic management, financial audits, and streamlining local governmental regulations […]
Moving Borders
According to the old European story of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, this is the time of the year when the maiden earth descends to spend half a year with her husband […]
Turtles
North America was renamed Turtle Island by the poet Gary Snyder, as a gesture of respect to the aboriginal cultures of North America. The term originated with the Iroquois tale of the […]
Okanogan Earthquake
Breaking News: Earthquake: 1:09 a.m., November 18, 2011. Okanogan, WA! Perhaps for the first time since Mexican drivers drove cattle through in 1858 to feed the California miners who had trudged north […]
Ogopogo: Film Star!
Well, it’s just so much fun to have a lake monster, that pretty much anything goes. Here’s the latest video. A still from that video? Sure: Newest YouTube Star: A Wave on Lake […]
The Time of Starting Over
Now that economies are struggling, it’s a good idea to look at some previous collapses. Hundreds of orchards, for one, have disappeared in northern Washington in the last dozen years. At first […]
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