Since the glaciers left 10,000 years ago, this esker has been a bare, human, deer, coyote and bear trail between wetlands and brush. Best to call the whole lot of us river […]
River in the Sky
The Land Makes the People that Makes the Land
For 9000 years, this skull has guided people on the esker trail between the mountains and the lakes Big Bar Lake Esker These people were not, and are not, British Columbians. They […]
Canadian Safe Boating Rules
Because Canadians are excellent swimmers… Common Loon, the Quintessential Canadian … they need no lifejackets. They just impede the freedom of the swimming wings. Commoner Loon, the Quintessentialer Canadian Plus, sitting prevents […]
Big Old Glacial River
Glacial rivers might have been cold places once. Now that they are mature, they are warm, and blooming, too. It’s a fun thing to walk in these crevices in the 2-kilometre-thick ice… […]
The Power of Opening
We are clematis. The rushing waters where the Pacific Ocean lifts to the sky and splashes down on rock sometimes look dry, scoured by the sky more than by water… … and […]
Space, Place, Land and the Deceptions of Language
Things are what they are. If you see in that image a boulder covered in two varieties of lichen, you are seeing words and the resonance they make when they draw on […]
Roman Gardens in the Suburban Okanagan
Do you see a storm sewer This wild lettuce sees a future. Welcome to the qanat, the underground river drawing itself from stone, that the Romans spread across the Sahara and the […]
Cinnamon Bear in the Sagebrush
I thought we’d go and check out the wetland just behind the top of the hill today, and see if the wet spring had put water in it. It has been dry […]
Erosion and Johnny Appleseed
One more time with the positive effects of erosion, just for fun. Back in October 2015, I walked up the hill to see what I could see, with an apple in my […]
Erosion Can be a Healing Force
The abandoned gravel pit. Note the erosion. Note how the rock is sorted down slope around a nascent stream channel. The clays have settled out of the water below where the land […]
Okanagan Okanogan 