The big, majestic and oh-so-cheeky pileated woodpecker loves to peck away at poplars, including the aspens below. Pileated Woodpecker Chopping Wood at The Painted Chasm Every one of those aspen trunks (and […]
The Aspens and the Woodpecker
The Golden Man of the Chasm
At the head of the Chasm, right below where the cascade of the melting ice sheet fell 12,000 years ago, in the dawn light of spring, a golden man with horns appears […]
Earth Mother in Secwepemc Country
I’ve been on a journey. The journey is the coming home. It is the story. It is the going forward to come back. Every spring, the Earth changes the story. Every spring […]
The Marmots Are Up and At ‘Em
Yellow-Bellied Marmot, Nicola Lake Pretty early, I’d say. I wonder what it knows.
Every Plant Makes a Stand
I promised to talk about plants, as a form of stopping a run. Yeah, a run. Very great stuff. Like this. The Rhine, Looking Southeast to the Lorelei, the Siren’s Rock If […]
Pinching Water in the Grasslands: Decolonizing Technology
In the spring fog, the bunchgrass reveals its technological secrets. It catches water from the air, which is pretty beautiful, for sure. Lots of water, too. If you walk through this stuff, […]
Á, Flow and Run: The Ancestral Energies
The river, we saw, flows to the sea. The N’chi’wan’a (Hanford Reach) That’s the Grasslands of Setah Creek smoking up the air. That’s rather disingenuous. A river is a flow. This is […]
What is Will, Anyway?
I was talking about the mind of the wilderness. If you want to refresh the conversation, have a look here: The Mind of the Wilderness. Some Mind at Work The rose bush […]
The Mind of the Wilderness
Well, let’s get right to the heart of it, this is the mind of the wilderness. Big Bar Lake Wetland Even in the dry grasslands, everything comes to water and everything leaves from […]
Flat Out Floating!
Ah, for the love of flatness. As I mentioned: in flat energy fields, the red dogwood creating heat by turning red in the spring sun and “flattening” out the seasons, and the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 