Let us compare rocks. Here’s a dry basalt flow at Chasm. The river that cut through it is gone. Painted Chasm Here’s a rock halfway across the mountains, above the Fraser Fault. […]
Living in the Mountains for Real
Rain Collection Technology Revisited
To catch the rain, you don’t need a bucket, a plate, a cup, or any other receptacle at all. As Horsetail teaches, spikes will do, rough spikes that provide enough surface that […]
Beyond the Settler Gaze
Beams of light, we say, meaning lines. Dusk on the Big Bar Esker Beams of light, we say… …meaning trees. A beam is a Baum, the Germans say, a bough, they say […]
Salt Lake in the Cariboo
Salt Lakes, that live from snow and evaporate in the sun, are terrible for cattle but great for humans, being sacred and all. Long Lake, Canoe Creek Illahie They are a fine […]
Slow Breathing… Very Slow.
Ah, the sun. Here, you can see it leaving its molten body for a day in the sky. The colour shift indicates a change in mood. It’s not that at night it […]
Disappearing Forests
Is it the home of my ancestors? Or more inward and mysterious and soaked with light, just metres away? Or both at once? Then again, here in Secwépemc Territory, it is often […]
Sunrise from the Bottom Up
Just because humans are vertical pillars with the seeing bits at the top doesn’t mean the world works from the top down, too. Or from the bottom up, for that matter.
There is Fishing and Then Again There is Fishing
Fishing. Lake Owner. Fishing. Camp visitor. FISHING. Cottagers. (Powered, floating docks allow one to have a dock without paying foreshore rights.)
There Goes the Neighbourhood
So, you start out with a pretty nice place, with some folks coming by in the summer for some fishing. Big Bar Lake And then the riff riff moves in. Three years, […]
The Power of Words in Environmental Perception and Change
Look how the light of dawn … … draws itself in at sunrise. And then reveals the story of water ,,, … and air. Are not water, air and light one single […]
