It has been a dry spring. The force of the winds hitting the Coast and Cascade Mountains is creating a stronger than normal mountain of lift to the east. Here’s how it […]
Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
Rivers on the Land
I made this image of the sagebrush buttercups to show a friend how they run in lines off underground stems, but then I noticed something else. It’s faint, but can you see […]
Sumac and Red Dogwood
What a pair, where the grass and the water meet! Gintys Pond, Cawston, Similkameen Valley
Thirty-Nine Years After the Flood
Two years after the fire: When you stand there in the Similkameen, you experience both at once. They are, essentially, the same event.
Alders in the Spring
Last year’s snow bent the branches down. This year’s spring power’s through on the work of last year’s summer. This is that special time of the year, when the old year and […]
Life and Death and Cottonwoods on the Similkameen River
Rivers flood. It’s one of the things they do. They’re pretty good at it. The Similkameen River, with a minimum flow of 65 cubic feet per second at Nighthawk, an average flow […]
The Clouds Pass Overhead and Underfoot
The Similkameen River flows beneath the northern wall of the Cascades. The Similkameen Looking South from Keremeos Creek Mouth It is not just a flow of water. The gravel of its bed […]
Moonrise at Sunrise Over Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Mountain at 6 a.m. Perhaps you can see the western wall of the valley, to the right, tip nearly vertically as it moves east and collides with the westward-moving mountain coming […]
Reducing Climate Risk in the Okanagan 5: Collect Water in Place
The practice of collecting water in the mountains, delivering it to cities and farms in the valley bottom, and then emptying recycled water into the lakes is placing us at climate risk, […]
Climate Resilience 3: Self-Fertilizing and Self-Watering Islands
That’s right, islands in the grass. They’re not just sitting there. They are creating nitrogen and releasing minerals from the rock into a form that plants can use. In fact, instead of […]
