If you try to walk up this gully, you will get less than a metre. Then you’ll be done. Simply put, it is not for humans. It is for water, and water […]
The Lessons of Water
Cottonwoods Are the Salmon of the Air
Cottonwood trees lay down the nutrient conditions for salmon by creating sandbars, back eddies, and nutrient rich water. More vitally, their leaves are salmon. They grow along a spine and then at […]
The Black Widow’s Journey
Off we went mid-afternoon, Black Widow and I. Both of us wanted to live in the same house. After being bitten by a black widow a month ago, I thought, no, maybe […]
Who Can Take the Cold, or Is It Really Climate Change?
Here’s the Vineyard at the Rise, frozen with grapes on the vine. And here is the picking team. And the administration… I’m all for feeding the birds, but it would have been […]
Fire’s Face
A year and a half ago, fire raced through the mountains of the Similkameen, but it did not take every tree, as you can see here above Chopaka. What it took was […]
A Flock of Grass
“The heads of grass”, we say, but is it so? A head is a height, a high point, so “head” is not so bad. Following this logic, a human “head” is a […]
The Snow Buckwheat Game
Look how we got things wrong with our cool scientific thinking. Great thinking, but still, look how we got things wrong. What I mean is, scientific thinking has allowed for close study […]
Of Memory and Resilience
Tbese webs are woven, and then rebuilt again and again after being torn by prey. They are then built on the old pattern, and become thick. This is what memory looks like, […]
Breathing the Sun
There is hardly a difference between Earth and sky. … is scarcely different from water cut by sky. Where the hillside is slowed by stones… … and snow buckwheat… Are these not […]
Trees and Memory
It’s a mystery. Trees grow straight up. Not towards the sun, though. That thing comes in at every crazy angle. I mean, why don’t trees grow towards that dawn instead? But no. […]
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