I’ve watched loons intimately for 25 years, and I just noticed a couple of splendid bits of camouflage for the first time. The light was right. First, the tail. Not only does […]
Loons Confusing Eagles
Beautiful Wasp at Home
Somebody loves snow buckwheat. Best not to plant lavender in its place, don’t you think?
Thinking of Putting Up a Bird House in Cascadia?
Don’t be so sure! I mean, when there are hungry sharp-shinned hawks around, a squirrel’s gotta do what a squirrel’s gotta do, eh.
Dawn on Earth
It is a wave breaking on a shore. It is sifted by trees that hold the night within themselves. The sun enters the water, and shines from there. (In the image below, it catches a […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 18: Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Selfhood
Five days ago, I found a psychological diagram attached to a dropped hand-out for the truth and reconciliation process for creating healthy selves in adults who had suffered personal or cultural violence during Canada’s residential […]
Why Beauty?
Beauty is a signature that a human was present, using its bodily senses to measure the precise balances in a landscape and to align its body with them. Some beautiful early morning […]
Breathing Dragons Breathing
When lakes take to the air, they get curious … …and I am glad (which is the completion of curiosity, in this odd binary language we are trying to converse in.) It […]
Memory in the Grand Coulee
When people first looked out of this rock shelter in the Grand Coulee, there would have been no scree on the cliffs on the far shore of this ancient river, but there would […]
Grasshopper Bee Fly
She’s beautiful. She has lonnnnnng grasshopper legs. And a sharp, beady eye like a packrat. See what I mean about the legs? She loves flowers, for sure, but she also has a […]
The Old Swimming Hole
So much for a high water year. But if you were a duck, eh!
Okanagan Okanogan 